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Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Sin, Satan, Sickness, or Sabotage

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Desiring God

Joy, Unknown, Devotional, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Daily Devotional, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, Solid Joys, Jesus, John Piper

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🗓️ 29 October 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Suffering proves our allegiance to Christ’s goodness and reveals his worth as an all-sufficient prize.

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October 29, sin, satan, sickness, or sabotage.

0:08.2

Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me.

0:15.3

But He said to me,

0:18.1

My grace is sufficient for you.

0:21.4

For my power is made perfect in weakness.

0:25.4

Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses,

0:31.3

so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

0:36.7

2 Corinthians 12, 8 and 9.

0:40.7

Is the suffering that comes to the Christian, because of persecution,

0:46.0

the same as the suffering that comes from cancer?

0:50.6

Do the promises given to one apply to the other?

0:58.5

My answer is yes.

1:01.2

All of life, if it is lived earnestly by faith,

1:06.1

in the pursuit of God's glory and the salvation of others,

1:09.9

will meet with some kind of obstacle and suffering.

1:15.1

The suffering that comes to the obedient Christian

1:19.6

is part of the price of living where you are in obedience to the call of God,

1:27.7

in choosing to follow Christ in the way He directs.

1:33.0

We choose all that this path includes under His sovereign providence.

1:39.0

Thus, all suffering that comes in the path of obedience

1:45.3

is suffering with Christ and for Christ,

1:49.7

whether it is cancer at home or persecution far away.

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