Are You Suffering In A Trial? Is Someone Treating You Wrong? READ THIS!

Coloossians 1:11
What is this power? It is Grace. What is Grace? The unearned power of Christ living in and through you.

Why did Paul want the Christians to have this power? Was it so they might go out and perform spectacular miracles? Was it so they might raise the dead, heal the sick, cast out demons? Once again the anwer is NO. This power is needed so that they child of God may have all patience and longsuffering with joy. This deserves careful attention! In part of Christianity today, great emphasis is placed up miracles, healing the sick and other sensational acts.  But there is a greater miracle than all of these in the age which we live. A child of God suffering patiently and thanking God in the midst of the trial!
In 1 Cor: 13:4, longsuffering is connectd with kindness; here with joy. We suffer because we cannot escape the sharing the groaning of creation.  To maintain joy within and kindess to others required God’s power, and is Christian victory.  The difference between patience and longsuffering has been defined as the difference between enduring without complaint and enduring without retaliation. God’s grace has achieved one of it’s greatest objects in the life of the believer who can suffer patiently and praise God in the midst of the fiery trial.

Reference Believers Bible Commentary

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