Evening: Psalm 86; Judges 16:28-30; 1 Peter 3:13-18
We don’t usually choose to suffer (who would?) but hope helps us endure it – for healing; for someone we love; for country; for the world. Suffering for faith needs hope too, unless it comes from blind, pathological obedience to twisted ideals. But when we suffer in the cause of Love, can we say what we hope our suffering might accomplish? Perhaps the way we confront our own suffering will help others learn courage? Suffering without hope is meaningless. With hope, we accept suffering as one inevitable part of our being made for Love in a still imperfect world.
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