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Lara Landon leads us in this week’s devotional about rejection and suffering. Scroll down to see her encouragement about trusting The Lord through difficult times & see how you can enter to win her latest album “Overcome!’
Psalm 30:5b Weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.
Jesus was a man of suffering. So, God is well aware of how we feel when we are rejected and we are suffering because of it. But, I really believe that he uses that as a chisel and hammer to get the very best out of us if we’ll trust him. –Lara
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I can relate in a lot of ways… I’ve been through rough seasons, and through that, God has always made me better, giving me chances to branch out and do new things, meet new people 🙂
I am grateful to know that even through life’s worst storms, our Father is always there for us, and can comfort us in times of need.
It is comforting knowing that anything we go through, Jesus knows how we feel and knows exactly what makes us feel better.
Jesus is there with us no matter what we go through in life.
Suffering does change us. God shows His strength to us & it gives us more faith & understanding for the next day.
Suffering makes us stronger & more sensitive to others’ needes.
I agree Lara, everyone faces some amount of rejection and/or suffering in this life. I experienced quite a bit of it growing up…and even sometimes still. It affects you…how you react to others sometimes…how you perceive the actions of others. But God is there and He can and will heal you…if you draw near to Him. As you heal, you learn to use this suffering to help others and you begin to learn better ways to handle the relationships you have around you. Ultimately you realize that the suffering created more opportunities for you to Love God and to Love others…and that choosing to Love is what drew you closer to God and others…and you have learned in each instance something much deeper and true about yourself and God. Eventually we reach a point like Paul said…where we can rejoice in our suffering….
Jesus often uses others to chisel of our rough edges.