God lives and works today.
Can you testify to his reality in your
life, even on difficult days that are filled
with suffering?
Our cross and suffering need not oppress us
any longer.
Today's meditation by Basilia Schling can help us
to find the hidden glory in the cross
and to discover a wonderful wealth and comfort
for our entire lives.
How very few people have realized and won
the glory that lies hidden in the cross
and suffering.
Yes, God the Father looks down from heaven
very sadly and asks, where are those who
have experienced the blessing of suffering?
Who has been comforted in suffering?
Where are the truly redeemed who do not
live in bondage to their suffering?
Where are those who in the midst of
darkness can rejoice that they've been redeemed?
Jesus probably has to lament.
There are very few.
And yet, he suffered bitterly to redeem us.
He drank the cup of suffering unto death
for us, so that suffering might no longer
lead to death, but to a new and
blessed life.
But who cares about Jesus' suffering?
If we saw his grief, our own small
troubles would seem trivial.
He offers us the fruit of his suffering,
resurrection, a new and blessed life, divine life.
In the midst of our troubles and afflictions,
do we ever think about Jesus' suffering?
All the pain and grief of the world
are contained in his suffering.
If we spent all our time thinking about
our own troubles and spare just one thought
for his suffering, we would see his amazing
love.
In love, he suffered for our sakes, to
heal our wounds and to comfort our hearts.
If we really grasped this, we would be
full of joy.
Therefore, let us tell Jesus in this hour,
My Lord Jesus, you show me so clearly
that the cross brings both suffering and glory.
It was your cross that brought us glory.
Therefore, the crosses you allow us to bear
will also bring us glory, if we carry
them with you.
So let me think of my cross with
you in mind.
Then I shall praise you for the transformation
and the glory that it will bring me.
I thank you for giving me the strength
to carry my cross in such a way
that it will bring you glory and a
bountiful harvest.
Cross bearing brings us peace Bearing the cross
of Christ, who can such grace assess?
Glory in thou, his such Lord, sharing with
him the weight O what an hour of
great, weeping eternal bliss!
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