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HeartSong
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 Partakers of His Sufferings

Partakers of His Sufferings


"Rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings." 1 Peter 4:13

If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a multitude of experiences that are not meant for you at all, they are meant to make you useful in His hands, and to enable you to understand what transpires in other souls so that you will never be surprised at what you come across. Oh, I can't deal with that person. Why not? God gave you ample opportunity to soak before Him on that line, and you barged off because it seemed stupid to spend time in that way.

The sufferings of Christ are not those of ordinary men. He suffered "according to the will of God," not from the point of view we suffer from as individuals. It is only when we are related to Jesus Christ that we can understand what God is after in His dealings with us. It is part of Christian culture to know what God's aim is. In the history of the Christian Church the tendency has been to evade being identified with the sufferings of Jesus Christ; men have sought to procure the carrying out of God's order by a short cut of their own. God's way is always the way of suffering, the way of the "long, long trail."

Are we partakers of Christ's sufferings? Are we prepared for God to stamp our personal ambitions right out? Are we prepared for God to destroy by transfiguration our individual determinations? It will not mean that we know exactly why God is taking us that way, that would make us spiritual prigs. We never realize at the time what God is putting us through; we go through it more or less misunderstandingly; then we come to a luminous place, and say - ' 'Why, God has girded me, though I did not know it!"



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November 5th
by Oswald Chambers

 2008/11/5 1:09Profile
enid
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 Re: Partakers of His Sufferings

Suffering. That's not a word we like a lot, if at all. At least, I don't.

Romans 8v17, '...if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.'

Much as we don't like suffering, it is part of the Christian walk. Even non-Christians suffer, and as the word of God says, the rain falls on the just and the unjust, Matt 5v45, so, it's part of life anyway.

Quote: ...opportunity to soak before Him...

What opportunities we have to be before God, and sometimes we fail to take advantage of that opportunity.

Let God be glorified in all we do.

God bless.

 2008/11/5 7:21Profile
MJones
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God's Consuming Fire

We think we are clean till fire is applied.
It magnifies all that hasn't died.
It burns away sin throughout our test;
It's His require before His best.

We're used to His patience, His love and His grace,
But in the fire He hides His face.
Instead of mercy, seems mean and cruel;
We've now come under a different rule.

His sights are set on what is best,
Good no longer His aim;
He stokes and pokes and throws on the coal,
And increases both heat and flame.

Once the fire has burned away
All that had not died,
A flood of grace is ushered in
As He shows up at our side.

The fire still continues to burn
But not to cleanse our sin;
Where once it was there to burn away,
Now it burns Him in.

MJ

Hebrews 10: 10,11
God disceplines us for our good that we may share in His holiness. No discepline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.


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Mike Jones

 2008/11/6 19:52Profile
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 Re:

Very nice - did you write this MJ?

Quote:
Now it burns Him in.

 2008/11/6 20:02Profile
MJones
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 Re:

Thank you and yes.


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