“My ears had heard of you
but now my eyes have seen you.” (Job 42:5)
Suffering gives us intimate knowledge of God. Have you experienced this?
When everything is going well in our lives, we know about God. We’ve heard that He’s faithful. But that’s just hearsay.
Suffering turns that hearsay into personal, experiential knowledge of God.
Instead of hearing that He’s faithful, you know He is faithful. Because He has been faithful to you.
So today, ask yourself this question:
How has the suffering in my life taken what I’ve heard about God and made it personal?
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