Holding On In Our Suffering

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What do you hold on to in your suffering? How do you hold on in your suffering?

When we feel like we cannot hold on in the middle of our suffering, we need to find hope to hold on to, and a strong rescuer to hold on to us when we feel we could let go.

The Apostle Paul assured the Roman church in their suffering, saying, “We rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.” (Romans 5:3-5, ESV).

Though it is sometimes difficult to imagine, we can rejoice in our sufferings. Our suffering is producing fruit in our lives.

We are able to hold on in our suffering, because our suffering produces endurance, character, and hope in us.

We can hold on in our sufferings, because God is holding on to us—in that “God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.”

May we rejoice in our sufferings as we hold on to our loving God who is holding on to us.

In Christ alone, Robbie

A Collect For Endurance: “Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified: Mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the Cross, may find it none other than the way of life and peace; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).

The Grace: “Glory to God whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine: Glory to him from generation to generation in the Church, and in Christ Jesus for ever and ever. Amen.” (Ephesians 3:20-21).

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