But rejoice that you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed. 1 Peter 4: 13
If God wants to use you, He will take you through a lot of experiences and that are not meant for you personally. They are designed to make you useful in His garden, and to enable you to understand what take place in the lives of others. Because of this process, you will never be surprised by what comes your way. You say “Oh, I can’t deal with that person.” Why can’t you? God has given you sufficient opportunities to learn from Him about that problem; but you turned away, not heeding the lesson, because it seemed foolish to spend your time that way.
The sufferings of Christ were not those of ordinary people. He suffered “according to the will of God” (1Peter 4:19), having a different point of view of suffering from ours. It is only through our relationship with Jesus Christ that we can understand what God is after in His dealings with us. When it comes to suffering, it is part of our Christian culture to want to know God’s purpose beforehand. In the history of the Christian church, the tendency has been to avoid being identified with the sufferings of Jesus Christ. People have sought to carry out God orders through a shortcut of their own. God’s way is always the way of suffering, the way of the “long road home”
Are we partakers of Christ’s sufferings? Are we prepared for God to stamp out our personal ambitions? Are we prepared for God to destroy our individual decisions by supernaturally transforming them? It will mean not knowing why God is putting us through; we go through it more or less without understand. Then suddenly we come to a place of enlightenment, and realize, “God has strengthened me and I didn’t even know it!”
Stay Blessed.
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