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We try to explain suffering or at least try and understand it. Many times though, there is no explanation for why we go through what we go through. It may be better to remain silent and allow God to complete the work He has begun in us so that His glory is revealed in and through us. As hard as it may be to accept, suffering does more good for us than success ever could. It refines our rough edges, builds endurance, grows our prayer life and makes us more sensitive to the movement of God in our lives. Maybe, like that man in today’s text, you have been told that your suffering is because of sin in your life or in your family line. It’s your choice to come to Jesus and ask Him how He will bring glory out of your impossibly hard situation.
Dear friends, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that has come on you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice inasmuch as you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed. If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.
As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him. As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” After saying this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes. “Go,” he told him, “wash in the Pool of Siloam” (this word means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.
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Today is a reminder of how I grow closer to God – not in the mountain top experiences or “successes” but in the valleys of suffering- depression, illness, pain, betrayals, losses. I praise God for providing the way out of the pit of suffering by focusing on the love of Jesus.