Hebrews Chapter 12 could hold upwardly titled: "No Pain, No Gain."
It tells us that hurting is oft a vehicle for spiritual growth.
That's why nosotros should:
1. See it equally training, non wasted sorrow.
"Endure hardship equally discipline* ... No champaign of report seems pleasant at the time, only painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness together with peace for those who cause got been trained past times it." (v.7,11)
2. Believe nosotros tin gain it.
We're surrounded past times "a slap-up cloud of witnesses" who cause got gone earlier us together with been victorious. (v.1)
3. Focus on Jesus, non the pain.
Focusing on Jesus "the pioneer together with perfecter of faith" keeps us from growing weary. (v.2-3)
4. Remember God is a Perfect parent.
He "disciplines the 1 he loves, together with he chastens everyone he accepts equally his son.” (v. 6)
Perhaps an fifty-fifty amend championship for Hebrews 12 mightiness hold upwardly "Endure Pain, Insure Gain" (v. 11). What gain you lot think?
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* Discipline tin hold upwardly a business office of constructive punishment, only it tin too hold upwardly preparation without penalization involved. That's why this passage applies to all difficulties that God allows inwards our lives.
