THE GOD OF ALL COMFORT Part 5: Comfort in Paradox - Restoration in the Kingdom
It is well known by all who suffer that fiery trials can be more discouraging than beneficial. Paradoxes in suffering can be so acute as to make scriptural principles look inconsistent, meaningless and ineffective. Basic necessities of faith can be called into question, such as prayer, providence, protection, and God’s power. How does all this work when everything seems to go wrong? How do we resolve assurances that appear to be foundational to our relationship to God and personal promises made by Christ? How can anyone endure physical, emotional, or mental agony in the acute moment of their need for immediate relief, when relief can only be understood as a distant promise of an unknown future date? Does God make things happen, or allow them to happen? Where are the angels who are supposed to encamp and deliver those that fear God? These are paradoxical questions everyone asks and are answered sufficiently by reframing to God’s point of view from His Word. All things will be restored in the Kingdom. Otherwise, there is ultimately nothing but vanity.
This series is meant to resolve the issues of stress with the realities of faith. People who suffer can fall into deep depression from the paradoxes and perplexities of unresolved suffering. Using the specifics of each part, the object of these presentations is to engender comfort from understanding and to bring us into heightened sensitivities about how the Truth offers comfort.
In particular, The five parts to this series are individually based on our direct experience with three sisters who suffered enormous trials in Sickness, Loss and Abuse. Their cases are severe and have raised all the spiritual questions about God, His providence, answers to prayer, and angelic encampment, all of which (among others) are pled during fiery trials. The premise of this focus is that many people are going through similar or different trials, equally as intense to them, as a result of personal circumstances, to say nothing of life in the end times. The classes are designed to answer many of the paradoxes of suffering in the context of faith. As such, there is much empathy with frailty and suffering, (especially comfort) to be shared in this series. Each Part in the series concludes with conditions in the future Kingdom of God which specifically resolve the sufferings of the present. Of all the philosophies and remedies available in the world, it is the greater reality of the Gospel of the Kingdom alone that is able to reach the heart of anyone bearing unbearable burdens and provide the comfort and peace sufficient for its purpose in the present. Although it is not the peace of immediate relief, as the world gives, it is the peace that Christ offers that enables patient endurance of suffering in the present for the Glory that lies before us in the future.
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