Suffering (202)
  1. Waiting on God can seem like slow motion torture sometimes.
  2. Judas, Peter, and you are all betrayers of Jesus, and yet He does the work necessary to forgive your sins.
  3. The day of Jesus' death races ever nearer, and we see both a woman who believes upon Him and a man who betrays Him.
  4. Your loving Lord is not oblivious to your pain and sadness.
  5. The point Luther made, again and again, was that distance between God and sinners is collapsed when the crucified Christ himself comes to sinners through a preacher.
  6. The promise here is that God is present with us in our troubles, issuing commands to save us before we ask. God does not ignore our suffering and cries.
  7. This world of unbearable grief and accidental calamity is being renewed and, soon, will be completely bereft of every pernicious foe.
  8. It is precisely from the cross that the glory of God shines most brightly into our lives, as dark and sinister as Golgotha appears from a sinful distance. Cross trumps crisis.
  9. One at the right hand, and one on the left . . . but Jesus doesn't think that means what they think it means.
  10. Men and women are all caught in the universal machine of suffering that chews people up and spits them out. And in their respective griefs and fears, they are all wondering if God sees them, hears them, knows them.
  11. He also took our own history and suffered all the agony and pain of our own lives.
  12. While the insights in each chapter are uniquely personal to the individual writers, the overarching theme is one of the sufficiency of Christ.
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