Romans‬ ‭8:16-17‬ ‭ESV‬‬. “The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.”
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We have to be confronted with a scripture like this one from Romans. In Christ there are so many benefits – obviously. We can read books and volumes about that. At the same time there are provisions to those benefits. This scripture points out that suffering is one of those provisions as the ESV words it.

What I am personally confronted with is how we are obsessed with comfort, convenience and safety. As reasonable and noble as those pursuits seems what is the downside to being obsessed with that? Well, we start to see certain emotions as results of being outside of the will of God. Frustration, dissatisfaction, disappointment, loss, offence, the list is long. Could it be that we experience these circumstances and emotions by God’s design. Is it possible that shying away from tough situations is also stepping back from our character being refined?

It is possible?
From this verse, I may still default to pursue comfort in many forms but I pray that I will be more mindful that when I m in a tough situation or if I experience what could be described as suffering that I am also moving closer to being a fellow heir with Christ Jesus.

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