Worship God through your struggle

 

This past Sunday, we studied 1 Peter 4:12-19. Worshipping Jesus is depending on Him in the midst of it, growing in the knowledge of Him, and suffering to ultimately give God glory in our hearts. Jesus Christ is worthy of our worship. In everything. Including suffering. I pray that my heart would yearn as Paul’s did, to struggle well. I want to grow in vulnerability as the GOSPEL gets down deeper in my heart. 

God is faithful to hold us in our struggles. He understands. He came into human history to identify with us and maintained His divinity. He was fully God and humbly lived as a servant and suffered. Jesus endured opposition at the extreme. The Holy Spirit gives me the capacity to believe this and walk thru suffering, comfort, and joy in my struggles. 

I am grateful for a church family that is honest about suffering, repentance of sin, and the joys found in Christ. We can celebrate all that  Jesus has accomplished on the cross- even in the midst of – especially in the midst of our suffering.

Posted on 28 April '09 by , under Humility, worship.