Amos 3:6-7
"If a trumpet is blown in a city will not the people tremble? If a calamity occurs in a city has the Lord done it? Surely the Lord God does nothing unless He reveals His secret counsel to His servants the prophets."
Suffering is unavoidable. Through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of heaven (Acts 14:22). You must remember through these hardships, that God does not raise His hand against you without reason. The context of Amos shows that God's calamity is purposeful. Look at the trumpet. Why do people tremble when they hear the trumpet? Because you don't blow the trumpet for no reason! You blow the trumpet to warn of danger! The dark clouds that bring the storm do not come without purpose. As you reflect upon this, as you put your trust in God's sovereignty, you will be purified, you will be challenged, you will grow in your trust to God, you will be conformed more into the image of His Son. I pray all of us can say when we suffer what George Mueller said when he lost his wife, "I miss her in numberless ways, and shall miss her yet more and more. But as a child of God and as a servant of the Lord Jesus I bow. I am satisfied with the will of my heavenly Father. I seek by perfect submission to His holy will to glorify Him. I kiss continually the hand that has thus afflicted me." Stay strong in the Lord and God bless!
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James,
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