If God is treated as God during suffering, then suffering can reveal and present him in all his greatness.
Interpretation
Suffering can bring us closer to a greater understanding of God and His greatness.
Timothy Keller suggests that when we acknowledge and treat God as supreme during our times of suffering, we can experience and recognize His greatness in a profound way. This perspective implies that suffering is not merely a hardship to endure but an opportunity for spiritual growth and deeper connection with the divine.
In practice
When speaking about resilience in difficult times at a support group.
Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,'I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there. I'm signing up for the journey with you. Would you sign up for the journey to my true self with me? It's going to be hard but I want to get there.
Only in Jesus Christ do we see how the untamable, infinite God can become a baby and a loving Savior. On the cross we see how both the love and the holiness of God can be fulfilled at once.
All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.
To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
God's Kingdom is "present in its beginnings, but still future in its fullness. This guards us from an under-realized eschatology (expecting no change now) and an over-realized eschatology (expecting all change now). In this stage, we embrace the reality that while we're not yet what we will be, we're also no longer what we used to be.
Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.
Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
The Faith does not mean an alienation from any culture for any people because all cultures await Christ and are not destroyed by the Lord. In fact, they reach their maturity.
I am convinced that when a man sincerely searches for God with all his heart, God will reveal Himself in some way.
For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction are the suspension of these laws. I am always astonished at the emphasis the Church puts on the body. It is not the soul she says that will rise but the body, glorified.
The sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place.
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