OUR ATTITUDE TOWARDS SUFFIRING
In 2 Timothy 2:3, the Apostle Paul writes to Timothy, “Join with me in suffering, like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.”
Everyone, at some point or another, faces suffering, the soldier especially.
However, it is not so much what we suffer, but how we suffer that matters. The way our heart responds to suffering is crucial, because by it we will either advance or become stagnant.
To suffer like a good soldier is to willingly endure all for the sake of the call.
To suffer like a bad soldier is to grumble when difficult situations and hardship arise.
Christ’s Example of Suffering
Christ lived with the expectation of suffering. Throughout the Gospels, He repeatedly referred to the suffering that He would face. In the Gospel of Mark, He said, “The Son of Man must suffer much and be rejected” (Mark 9:12).
Jesus had the mind that with His call came suffering. But unlike many of us, He did not despise it. He willingly accepted it. In the Garden of Gethsemane the night He would be betrayed, Jesus cried out to God saying, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will” (Matthew 26:39).
Jesus had the mind and readiness to suffer if that was what the Father appointed for Him.
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