{"id":308012,"date":"2022-11-06T03:37:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T22:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.com\/?p=308012"},"modified":"2022-11-06T03:37:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T22:07:05","slug":"partakers-of-his-suffering-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2022\/11\/06\/partakers-of-his-suffering-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Partakers of His Suffering"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color\"><strong>\u2026but rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ\u2019s sufferings\u2026 \u20141 Peter 4:13<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>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.<br>The sufferings of Christ were not those of ordinary people. He suffered \u201caccording to the will of God\u201d (1 Peter 4:19), 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<br>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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026but rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ\u2019s sufferings\u2026 \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 all. They are designed to make you useful in His hands, and to enable you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[686],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-devotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}