Suffering gives God an opportunity to bless you. It puts muscle in your spiritual life. The suffering God doesn’t remove, He intends for you to bear. Suffering for blessing causes you to depend on the Lord and His divine provisions and promises and accelerates your advance to spiritual maturity. “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness” (2 Cor 12:9). We often suffer because of our own bad decisions. We mismanage our relationships, our health, our finances causing self-induced misery. We bring it on ourselves. How do we get back on track? Confess our sins (1 John 1:9) and return to learning and applying the Word of God, developing a FLOT line in our soul. Volitional responsibility.

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