Who Suffers More?

5/1/25 3:09 PM
Solitary Man
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My people, who suffers more?  As some of you spend day after day, even year after year, in pain or in sorrow, are you tempted to despair?  The enemy will even try to suggest to you that your God has placed a heavier cross on your shoulders than he bore himself.  Did not your Lord only suffer torments for one day, yet you suffer for years?  Has the enemy whispered such things in your ears?  Have you begun to entertain such words?

While I may not have suffered in the flesh for a long season, do you honestly believe my becoming sin for you was a small thing?  To have my Father’s face turn away from me at the cross, can you even begin to comprehend such a thing?

And if that is not enough to move you, do you think that my suffering has ended, once I rose from the dead?  Can you begin to imagine my pain, and my Father’s pain, over every precious soul that I have created and have had such great plans for, reject me and plunge headlong into hell?  Is not my and my Father’s heart broken anew each time another soul chooses to reject my ways for all eternity?

My people, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked.  Even the most heinous sinner I take no satisfaction in having to mete out righteous justice.

Oh, if man only knew the plans I had for each and every one of these precious souls!  Plans of such blessings and joy, plans for their good and never their harm.

Yet most choose darkness.  Most choose to go their own way.  Whatever light I gave them, they took pains to reject and snuff out.  So many men love the darkness rather than the light.  So many perish, even as I speak.

My children, it is not that I am unaware of your trials.  It is not that I don’t care about your pain.  But I do want to give you some perspective.  I do want to remind you that all this is temporary.  Your trials shall not last forever.  While in the midst of your suffering, it may seem never ending, but it is not.  Never ending is the punishment of those who reject me.  Never ending is for those who choose not to walk the narrow road.

I speak these things to you at this time so you take heart.  While some of you have become weary with pain, I urge you to take your eyes off self and turn them toward me.  Try to imagine my sorrow.  Sorrow that has lasted since the time of Adam.  Sorrow that is renewed countless times each and every day as yet another soul drops off into eternity without me.  In these thoughts you may find the proper perspective toward your temporary afflictions.  Be glad and rejoice that your names are written in the Lamb’s book of life, and that your suffering is not forever.

For yet a little season I shall ask you to endure a little longer.  As the culmination of history approaches, the birth pangs of the renewed kingdom shall become more painful.  I tell you these things not to frighten you, but so that you may prepare.  Settle it in your heart that whatever may come your way, your eyes are firmly fixed on eternity.  Let not the setbacks and the disappointments of the day derail your faith.  Stay strong, and you shall eventually see the end of your road.

For those who manage to persevere until the end, I can guarantee you that you will never regret your decision.  I invite all to endure hardship for yet a little while longer, and you shall reap a harvest of eternal glory.  Encourage and exhort one another with words such as these, and help one another run the race.  Choose to look out for one another as I give opportunity, and I will always give you strength and discernment to assist those in need.

Keep watching and waiting, and learn to never take your eyes off of me.  Meditate on these truths, and before you know it, you shall be standing before my throne, with an abundant entrance into my kingdom waiting for you.

Scripture References

2Co 5:21  For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Mat_27:46  And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

Joh 1:1  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Joh 1:2  The same was in the beginning with God.

Joh 1:3  All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Joh 1:4  In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

Eze_18:23  Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?

Eze_18:32  For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.

Eze_33:11  Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

Jer_29:11  For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

Joh 3:19  And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

Heb_4:15  For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

Rom_8:18  For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

Heb_12:2  Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Luk_10:20  Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.

Rev_13:8  And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

Rev_21:27  And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

1Pe_5:10  But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

2Ti_2:3  Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

2Co_4:17  For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

2Ti_4:2  Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

Heb_3:13  But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

1Th_5:14  Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.

Mar_13:37  And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.

2Pe_1:11  For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

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