In The Inward Journey by Gene Edwards, many ideas provoke new thoughts, but one in particular has been on my mind recently:
"I look around at the Christians whom I live with, whom I know and love so dearly. They really, truly love him ad would probably die for him today, even this minute...Some of my Christian friends who would willingly die for him today...still make terrible roommates, and husbands, and wives.
Suffering…unlike martyrdom can prove to be a mite hard on the soul...There are things martyrdom cannot do. Things only sorrow can do. Pain can take out of us that which will not yield to the divine by any other means. That which refuses to be replaced by divinity can sometimes be reached only by unjust suffering."
I love this. It frightens me for suffering, for I pray that I would not refuse what would be placed in my life by the Divine.
I know that is naive.
Most likely, much suffering awaits me...out there...somewhere...but I am content to know that it will be for God's glory through by sanctification..
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