Suffer with Christ

Philippians 1:29“For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for him,” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

SUFFER? Are you kidding?! oh yeah, great, we’re called to be miserable. Whoa-HOLD UP-did we miss something? like the part where God gave up his FAMILY (son) for us and how Christ left EVERYTHING to save our grimy selves, and not only us or our generation, but the ENTIRE population past, present, and future. He took the sins of us all, all at one time. He took all of the murders, abortions, lies, adulterous relationships, etc. etc. ALL of the sins of ALL of mankind of ALL time. And here we are, barely willing to give Him a moment of our time during the day to be in His Word and in communion with Him?! oish, HE CREATED TIME! He blesses us beyond belief and gives us big and little blessings everyday, we most of the time pass them by and don’t even recognize them. He is patient with us daily and we complain when He calls us to do stuff out of our comfort zone. No matter how much we suffer here, is it nothing close to how much Christ suffered for us because He loves us. It is a joy and honor to suffer for Christ and even though we don’t deserve it, he will bless us for it. He’s pretty amazing like that :)