Suffering & the Savior

“Suffering helps us look for our Savior. If we never have any trouble along the journey, we would never have any reason to long for Heaven. Like the Israelites, we need the house of bondage to help drive us to the Promised Land.”

- Philip Graham Ryken, Exodus: Saved for God’s Glory (Wheaton, Ill.; Crossway Books, 2005), 37.

Published in:  on November 15, 2008 at 2:16 am Comments (3)

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  1. On November 15, 2008 at 4:49 pm amanda Said:

    Amen!

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  2. On November 15, 2008 at 6:58 pm Christopher Lake Said:

    How true this is… and how I often try to avoid suffering (not that I’m implying one should seek it out), when it is really an opportunity to draw closer to God and value Him more than earthly comfort…

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