Suffering? Who Wants? - Dr. Lilian Stanley

 Suffering?  Who Wants?

     I used to pray, "Lord, I don't want to suffer and die.  Please take me in my sleep." Jesus would answer, " Do you know how much I suffered and died on a cruel cross?  But you want to die comfortably on a mattress and pillow." So now I pray, "Lord, let me die the death you have planned for me.  Only give me the strength and grace to go through it." 
     "To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in His footsteps" (1 Peter 2:21). Have a mind to suffer.


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