At church this morning, one of the pastors was wrapping up the service. We’d taken communion, so he was bringing attention back to remembering Christ’s sufferings. He said, “in the midst of our sufferings, we can tend to forget Christ’s sufferings.”
Ironic, because those are the times that it’s most critical for us to remember.
Perhaps it’s the weakness of our faith, or maybe it’s because the culture we live in doesn’t often serve us with truly great sufferings. The suffering most of us encounter is only enough to disrupt our faith, but not always enough to stir us to trust God. Of course, suffering is relative to the person experiencing it, the fact still remains: In an objective analysis, Americans don’t have to suffer much.
I suspect this is why our suffering sometimes fails to stir up our faith, wherein other people, in other places it does.
Just a thought. I wonder how we go about seeing that change?
