Thursday, March 5, 2009

The Low Anthem

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The Prosperity through Pain Gospel. Part 2

(Note: This blog is not meant to be a complete treatise on why we have pain. For a good start on that subject check out C.S. Lewis' The Problem with Pain.)

We need to realize pain is a part of our fallen world. We were never promised what we consider a fair deal; that if we work hard we'll be fine. We we're never guaranteed physical and financial well-being. Jesus said we would have trouble. It was a guarantee. But he also said to fear not because he has overcome the world.

Through Christ everything works for are good even if we never understand why or how it works for our good. It is important to remember when the hard times come (and if they haven't, they will) that anything God allows to happen to us is for are ultimate good and even more importantly, his ultimate glory.

He really does love us and even if he disciplines us it's out of a heart that defines the word love. He is not angry at us. We are his children and he does everything out of his perfect love for us.

All the pain that we experience, that our Father allows us to experience, is so that we might become more like Christ. That is where true prosperity is found.

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