Not in Spite, But Through The Cross

                                                                     Psalms 76:10
                                                  "Surely The wrath of men shall praise thee"

          Not in spite of the Cross but through the Cross, the ultimate aim of God in Christ was achieved as completely as it would have been had men followed Christ from the first instead of murdering him.  That is way we place the Cross in the very center of what we call God's plan of redemption.
          So in the case of human suffering, God does not will it or desire it, but finally it will not defeat him in his plan for the individual suffer......and he has such a plan for each one of us. The fact that the suffering is allowed at all carries the guarantee that God, so far from being defeated by it finally, can mold it into a pattern as one which left it out. God can bring us, not in spite of our sufferings, but because of it and his use of it, and our reaction to it, to the same place as we should have reached if suffering had never come our way and with final gain instead of loss. So to help us through our time of suffering, let us think about what God has for us on the other, end of that suffering. 

                                                                May God Bless You
                                                                 And Your Families

                                                                                          Minister: Robert A. Lail