Ouch
08 Feb 2010 Leave a Comment
Complaints have been rising in my heart this week, so this was a much needed rebuke to read today:
“If you read, ‘I want to get rid of the pain of this situation,’ you know that the agenda is probably wholly wrong. God may have brought a person into a painful situation in order to challenge, grow, and bless him. To be rid of it (at least for the present, or in the way he wishes) would be to dump God’s blessing overboard. What the Lord may want in a situation is to teach endurance (how to hang in there when the going gets tough), greater dependence on Him, or how to help others whom he could not if he were ‘rid of’ the painful circumstance.” – Jay Adams (Critical Stages of Biblical Counseling, p.40)
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