Rom 12:5 So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
We are a part of a Body. Many of our sufferings are
not on our own account at all.
Many of the sufferings of the children of
God have nothing whatever to do with their own faults or their own
failing. They are suffering in a related way, they are suffering for the
Body’s sake, they are entering into the battle; the conflict of this
one great testimony.
Sometimes it is almost uncanny when the Lord has
something in view in relation to His testimony of Life, how for no
reason whatever, on no account at all, we discover that we are involved
and ours is not an isolated experience.
All sorts of people all over the
place are having the same kind of experience – a terrific sense of pressure, upset, annoyance, anything to frustrate – it is happening all
round, testifying that in the spiritual realm, in the realm of the
Spirit, there is a fine, sensitive oneness which matters to the Lord,
and therefore matters to the enemy.
Do not always take your sufferings as some
controversy that the Lord has with you.
That is the twist the enemy
often gives. Be open to the Lord to be checked up on anything, but do
not always take it that the things which are happening to you and
causing you trouble and suffering are due to your own failure or wrong.
You are involved in something very much more than that.
~T. Austin Sparks~
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