Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in 1 Peter 4 today. As Christians, suffering is all but guaranteed. But is suffering something we actively seek out, or just a side effect of being faithful? The end is coming, and has been coming ever since Jesus first left this earth. When you wake up, is your first priority to go out and say or do things that will cause you to suffer, or is self preservation on your mind? This goes against the natural instinct, but this also results in souls being saved. By choosing to rock the boat, poke the bear, or shake the metaphorical hornet’s nest, we may get hurt, but as a result, the Gospel may be proclaimed, and lives will be changed as a result. You may not always get the desired result, but that’s not our job. Lost people are very unlikely to stumble into Christianity by themselves (not that it can’t happen). That’s why God uses people like you and me to live a life that Jesus lived so that souls can be saved. We are going to suffer regardless, use it for His will.

“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Matthew 28 19-20

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