“Most men are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed,” said one observant writer. Suffering is inescapable in a fallen world. If we are to effectively confront adversity we must understand that 1) God permits it, and that 2) God limits it. 1 Corinthians 10:13 says, “There hath no temptation taken you but such as...
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RECEIVE GOD’S FORGIVENESS
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: . . . forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you. Ephesians 4:31–32 C. S. Lewis wrote that “forgiveness is a lovely idea, until you have something to forgive.” Yet forgiveness...