Doug Sherman, pastor of our fellowship here in Moses Lake, WA, just posted a great commentary on human suffering. A blurb:
"Pain reminds me that I feel and it serves as the emotional and spiritual counterpart to my physical nerve endings. It teaches me to avoid evil and embrace God. It is a beautiful thing that the God who could give me the capacity to laugh loudly from the belly, experience the ecstasy of sexual passion and the beauty of art and music, could also equip me with the emotions of sadness, anger and sorrow. The pleasure and the pain teach me about the God of the Scriptures who sits in the heavens laughing, stands outside Lazarus tomb weeping, and cries out in the oil press of Gethsemane, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"'
Ecclesiastes 7:3-4 - 3 Sorrow is better than laughter, For by a sad countenance the heart is made better. 4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, But the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. NKJV
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