Mental exhaustion.
Spiritual warring.
Emotional upheavals.
Physical tortures.
Some call this their way of life, their way of existence. They go day by day trudging through their pains, their extreme agonies. Finding relief from all this pain is a chore that seems hopeless. Yet, we go on.
For those who believe in Christ they know all the great pains are temporary to eternity. They may not be temporary to this life, agony upon agony may be the lot of some people. Intense emotional suffering the lot of others. Extreme mental confusion a daily struggle. Physical torture is how some live each moment, trying to find relief is all but impossible, but oh how they try, we try.
No one wants to live this way with any of these agonies, or multiples of them. Why we have to live this way is a mystery. Why one has a pain free existence while another has pain every day, is a mystery. We need to understand somehow that God allows this for a reason beyond our full comprehension. We can know that ultimately all pain is temporary. Death will take away all pain, and when we are called to die after all the suffering we know that when we wake from death's sleep we will rise to meet our Lord in the air at His return, pain free in all ways forevermore!
May we hold fast to our hope which is Christ eternal and the salvation He promises. All through His grace and mercy! All through faith, the unseen but true.
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Excerpt - Articles on Romans by E. J. Waggoner Chapter 8
Romans 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
"In all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us."
It must be so, since everything is for us. Since Christ suffered hunger, and distress, and peril, and even death itself, in order that he might deliver us, all those things are for us.
It was through death that he gained the victory for us; therefore even in death we gain an overwhelming victory.
Those whom Satan persecutes even to death, gain the greatest victory over him.
That which seems to be a victory for Satan, is his most crushing defeat.
Behold what a wonderful provision God has made for our salvation! It is easy enough to see that if Satan did not trouble us at all, we should be saved. If our enemy would leave us entirely alone, we should have no trouble. So on that side we are safe. But he will not leave us alone. He goes about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Very well, God has so ordered it that even his attempts to destroy us help us along. Death is the sum of all the ills that Satan can bring upon us, and even in that we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. "Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."
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