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From the Minister's Study
Through suffering grow closer to God
By Mark Royall
Huron Chapel Evangelical
Missionary Church, Auburn
"1 am glad when 1 suffer for you in
my body, for 1 am participating in
the sufferings of Christ that continue
for His body, the church. Colossians
1:24"
I am going to give you seven
words that are packed with a book
full of a profound understanding of
how God responds to the suffering
we bought into this world? Are you
ready? Here are those seven words,
"God allows what He does not will."
God doesn't will sin but He allows
human sin. Within the circle of
God's sovereignty He gives us free-
will. He allows us a choice. We can
choose to love God or not. We can
choose to be obedient to God or not.
We can choose to follow God or not.
Now, our choices always have
consequences. This is where the
suffering comes in. When God
created the world it was good. There
was no suffering, no disease, no
death but when man allowed sin into
the world, suffering entered with it.
Sin is our choice. We own the
consequences of the suffering
because we bought into sin and sin
comes with suffering.
Even though God will allow
suffering, He is not helpless and
rendered ineffective by it. For God
can use our suffering and turn it into
victory. I saw an example of this a
few weeks ago at the back of our
church sanctuary as I watched a little
girl learn to take her first steps. All
of us as parents remember how
exciting this was to watch our kids
learn to walk. When our kids learn
to walk we will allow them to
stumble and even fall. You don't
intend for them to fall or you would
just push them over yourself. As a
parent you know they will fall and
they will get hurt but you make sure
the conditions for falling won't
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defeat the purpose of them learning
to walk.
For example, you make sure there
are no sharp table corners close by.
You have them learn on soft carpet
instead of hard tile floor. You don't
put a kid learning to walk out on a
busy road either because this would
defeat the whole purpose.
The suffering of a child falling and
getting get back up eventually pays
off because one day, walking
happens. I love how God works
things out for yesterday, in the very
same spot where this little girl was
learning to take her first steps, I
watched with amazement as two
older sisters were doing these
incredible backflips and cartwheels.
I would have joined them but I didn't
want to steal their thunder. There
would have been a day when the
parents of these two sisters would
have been there when they took their
first steps. I am sure they watched
their girls suffer falls time and time
again but they got back and look
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where it led them...back flips and
cartwheels!
The Cross of Jesus Christ is a
great place to see how God used
suffering and turned it into victory.
God the Son did not just passively
endure the suffering of the Cross.
Jesus did not just merely accept the
evil men did to Him...He used the
evil. He turned His physical death
into our eternal life. Jesus wrestled
from the suffering of the Cross the
greatest triumph and victory this
world has ever seen. He turned death
into resurrection. He turned Good
Friday into Easter Sunday. And
both of these days, the suffering of
Good Friday and the victory of
Easter Sunday, are days of triumph.
Easter would not have happened
without a Good Friday.
We can take the attitude Jesus had
where we take our suffering and
offer it up to God the Father where
we are trusting if He allows it He
will turn our suffering into a victory.
This is why the Apostle Paul says,
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"...I am glad when I suffer for you
in my body".
The French have this saying when
translated into English says
something like this, "To suffer
passes. To have suffered, never
passes." What does this mean? It
means the suffering I endured trying
to learn to walk was temporary. It
passed. In fact, I can't even
remember it. But the value of being
able to walk every day is always
something I value everyday.
I can tell you this, it has been
through times of suffering where I
grew closer to God and His Word. I
know I am much stronger, much
closer, much more assured of God's
goodness and presence because of
those times I had suffered. Rant
God in those times and I trusted
Him and He never failed. So as
crazy as it may sound to some
people, I can say today, I am
glad 1 suffered.
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Sunday, February 28
Brussels Business & Cultural Centre
at 10:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.
Sunday School for children
4 to 12 years of age at 9:30 a.m.
Childcare provided for infants and
preschoolers during the sermon.
Coffee & cookies after the morning service.
For additional details please contact Pastor Andrew Versteeg 519.887.8621
Steve Klumpenhower 519.292.0965 Rick Packer 519.527.0173
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PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
BRUSSELS
Rev. Elwin Garland
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28
We invite you to join our church family in:
Worship & Sunday School - 10 am
Coffee & Snacks - 11 am
Fridays 11:30 am - 1:00 pm - Soup & More 2
- a free community meal held in Melville's basement, and
made possible by the Brussels churches working together.
Nursery care available
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Worship Service & Sunday School at 10 a.m.
Sunday,
Febraury 28
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Sunday, March 6
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