Soul Life Is Better Than Relieved Suffering

                                        Psalms 119:81
                        "My soul fainteth for thy salvation:
                                    but I hope in thy word."     

         Through our prayer's God answers us, "My grace is sufficient for thee."  "My strength is made perfect in weakness."  Power to bear is a better Divine blessing than any mere removal of suffering from our bodies.  The wonder of our Lord’s bearing in the judgment halls and Calvary is the soul strength that triumphed over circumstances.
        Soul life is better than relieved suffering;  but we find this very hard to believe.  We only do believe it as we realize that God’s idea for a man’s life is not the providing of a pleasant time, but the providing of a scene which shall become a moral discipline, out of which spiritual character may be evolved.  The suffering has in view the character; and to remove the suffering may be the worst thing that could happen to the man.  The sigh of the Divine using of the suffering for the highest ends is found in the imparting of soul strength.  It shows the suffering to be a blessing to us.
        For the real measure of the suffering is the measure of power to bear which the sufferer has. Some can bear nothing; some can bear anything.  At one time we can bear what at another overwhelms.  Then strength to bear "the soul-life of full trust in God" does actually lift us above our sufferings, and makes all Christians feel that,  "Christ’s yoke is, easy and light." (Matt. 11:29-30).
       Amen!!

Reading: (Psalms 119:81)
               (Matt. 11:29-30)

                                   May God Bless You
                                    And Your Families

                                                  Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.
                                                  The Cross Life Ministry