{"id":3357,"date":"2010-11-05T15:52:53","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T23:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wordpress\/?p=3357"},"modified":"2010-11-05T16:13:01","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T00:13:01","slug":"partakers-of-his-suffering-11-05-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=3357","title":{"rendered":"Partakers of His Suffering 11-05-2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Partakers of His Suffering<\/h2>\n

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November 05, 2010<\/div>\n
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. . . but rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ\u2019s sufferings . . . \u20141 Peter 4:13<\/a><\/div>\n
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If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a number of experiences that are not meant for you personally at all. They are designed to make you useful in His hands, and to enable you to understand what takes place in the lives of others. Because of this process, you will never be surprised by what comes your way. You say, \u201cOh, I can\u2019t deal with that person.\u201d Why can\u2019t you? God gave you sufficient opportunities to learn from Him about that problem; but you turned away, not heeding the lesson, because it seemed foolish to spend your time that way.<\/p>\n

The sufferings of Christ were not those of ordinary people. He suffered \u201caccording to the will of God\u201d (1 Peter 4:19<\/a>), having a different point of view of suffering from ours. It is only through our relationship with Jesus Christ that we can understand what God is after in His dealings with us. When it comes to suffering, it is part of our Christian culture to want to know God\u2019s purpose beforehand. In the history of the Christian church, the tendency has been to avoid being identified with the sufferings of Jesus Christ. People have sought to carry out God\u2019s orders through a shortcut of their own. God\u2019s way is always the way of suffering\u2014 the way of the \u201clong road home.\u201d<\/p>\n

Are we partakers of Christ\u2019s sufferings? Are we prepared for God to stamp out our personal ambitions? Are we prepared for God to destroy our individual decisions by supernaturally transforming them? It will mean not knowing why God is taking us that way, because knowing would make us spiritually proud. We never realize at the time what God is putting us through\u2014 we go through it more or less without understanding. Then suddenly we come to a place of enlightenment, and realize\u2014 \u201cGod has strengthened me and I didn\u2019t even know it!\u201d<\/p>\n

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November 5, 2010<\/p>\n

Journal Entry for Today-JDV<\/p>\n

Today God brought a number of things together in a way that I could see Him working in and through\u00a0my life and the lives of those I love. People met other people, needs were met and I was able to make some sense of my most recent business dealings. But it all came together and made sense NOT because I got all the answers I needed and all problems were solved. It all seemed to come together because I was looking for and at Jesus.<\/p>\n

\u00a0And God says\u2026\u201dI am the way, the truth and the light. Seek first the kingdom of God and all these other things shall be added to you. I came to give you life and life more abundantly. Look to Me and you will find the answers for all your questions. It is not easy to seek Me in the midst of a storm, but when you stay connected with Me there is no need for seeking and the storms come and go and you hardly pay them notice\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

“The Lord will keep you from all harm–he will watch over your life; the Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.” Psalm 121:7, 8 <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Partakers of His Suffering November 05, 2010 \u00a0 \u00a0 . . . but rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ\u2019s sufferings . . . \u20141 Peter 4:13 If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a number of experiences that are not meant for you personally at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3357"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3360,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357\/revisions\/3360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}