NO MORE TEARS

May the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.(1 Peter 5:10)
Beloved! It is the desire of God that we should live like Lord Jesus on the earth। We should be filled with the love of God for one another. He allows suffering in our lives in order to understand the sufferings of others. But the sufferings are not permanent. The Bible says, “May the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you” (1 Peter 5:10). The Father caused Jesus Christ to suffer to know our sufferings. In the Garden of Gethsemane, as He prayed in agony, His sweat began to fall like drops of blood on the ground. He was crushed for our sake on the cross. The Bible says, “His visage was marred more than any man, and His form more than the sons of men” (Isaiah 52:14). “He has no form or comeliness; and when we see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him” (Isaiah 53:2). In the Bible we see Job as a righteous and blameless man who feared God and shunned evil. But he went through great sufferings in his life. He lost everything he owned within a day and was struck with painful boils in his body. He knew God was testing him. Even amidst his sufferings, he did not deny God but said, “He knows the way that I take; when He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold” (Isaiah 23:10). Yes, God tested Job and found him to be faithful even in his sufferings. God blessed his latter end greatly than his beginning. When I was doing the Lord’s ministry, both my lungs were greatly affected and I became very lean. I was skin and bones and was drifting towards death. I was greatly concerned about this when suddenly Lord Jesus appeared and said, “My son! Unless you go through such terrible sufferings, you will not be able to understand the intensity of the sufferings of others. It is for this reason I made to traverse this path of agony. The sickness would have enabled you to understand the hardships and sufferings of others. I will restore you to good health and through you I will heal the sick and restore them to good health.” Many years have passed by and the Lord graciously as always, hears my fervent prayer and heals the sick around the world. Beloved! God desires that we should taste His love. When we seek Him amidst our sufferings, He will comfort and deliver us. He allows sufferings in our lives so as to understand the pain and agony of the sufferings of other people. The sufferings in our lives are only for a while and will enable us to shine forth as gold from the furnace. He will use us as channel of comfort to the broken hearted in this world. Prayer:Loving Heavenly Father, Fill me with Your love. Help me to seek You amidst my sufferings and give me grace to understand the pain and agony of other people. Use me as a channel of comfort to the broken hearted in this world. Father, whenever I go through sufferings, help me to come out as purified gold. Let Your grace, love and peace abound in my life.Amen.

- Dr. D.G.S. Dhinakaran