Not In Spite Of But Through The Cross

                                          Acts 5:41
                   "And they departed from the council, rejoicing
                            that they were counted worthy to
                                 suffer shame for his name"

        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 why we place the Cross in the very center of God's plan of redemption.
        So, in the case of human suffering, God does not will it or desire it, but it will not defeat Him in His plan for the one's who suffer; and He has a plan for each one of us.  The fact that the suffering is allowed at all carries the guarantee that God, is far from being defeated by it because He can weave it into our life as though it never happened.  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; with gain instead of loss.  AMEN!!

                                      May God Bless You
                                       And Your Families

                                                  Minister: Robert A. Lail Sr.
                                                  The Cross Life Ministry