Suffering chose Job. Suffering chose Kath. Suffering chooses undeserving godly people. We know he means to grow us up, to strengthen faith, to get our attention. We know that God will have His perfect way with Mr. Suffer. We also know we are not exempt from Mr. Suffer’s trail. Somehow we find ourselves smack in the middle of gravel, rocks, boulders wondering what now.
Step. Just step. Keep stepping.
How does someone, feeling unable to move in the midst of suffering, step on the Suffer path? That someone does what she did before she landed on Mr. Suffer’s trail. Before, she read her Bible everyday, she prayed, she went to church. During, she reads her Bible everyday, she prays, she goes to church. She perseveres.
Job, a godly man, talked to God before suffering chose him. Then Job lost his stuff, his children and his comfortable. He grumbled, protested, spewed, moaned. To God. Processing before Him, with Him, in Him. Job prayed before suffering, during suffering and after suffering. He sought God. He persevered. And God honored Job.
Kath, a Jesus-loving gal, talked to God before suffering chose her. Then Kath lost her husband, and not long after, lost another precious relationship, and let go of all things familiar. She wailed and moaned and complained. To God. Kath prayed and sought God and persevered… she stepped.
Today, 2 years on the Suffer trail, Kath is doing what she’s always done. God has already honored Kath by gifting her with a deeper relation with Him and family and friends. And if the trail never took a turn, Kath would just keep stepping. Keep persevering. She loves Him so much. She loves Him because He loved her first.
“But He knows where I am going. And when he tests me, I will come out as pure as gold.” Job 23:10
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