…But by means of their suffering, He rescues those who suffer. For He gets their attention through adversity...(Job 36:15 NLT)
“Oh! What a bummer; the slang for prosperous calamity. Attention centers itself on this corner of hard lived survival. The wealthy become wealthier and the street man becomes more like the street: broken, cracked, and stepped on. It’s a commodity trivial to any pursuit of out lasting the shelf date, or the lingering on your personal ‘born on date’. A clutched vice with no rhyme or reason to why it’s even happening at all. Except there is a means; a means of stimulation “to concentrate your attention on the bare essentials, so you will live, and really live...”(Luke 16:9 MSG). For you see, Jesus made us a creature of creativity, not of complacency, in order to heed ourselves to Him. His rescue is the observant direction in which He pulls us out from an enduring of suffering continuously sustained through every adverse circumstance the evil one can throw our way. Our life’s lens cap gets all blurred and out of focus when we have no
suffering in this life, but gets in focus and clear when through our suffering our attention is directed to Him. Christ’s road to the cross was just as clear- He must suffer and suffer He did for us so that now we can live and really live. We live and breathe Him- the absolute essential who secured us a heavenly date; a date without expiration.
To the praise of His glorious grace. Amen.
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