Salvation Is Found In Suffering

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Why Suffering Is So Important



I'm not here to give you a motivational speech, you can find endless amounts of those on TikTok. I'm here to open your eyes and get you to see that you can become not only like the apostle's but also like Christ. This is only achieved through righteous suffering.


We always ask God, "How much more do I have to endure? Why do I have to suffer? Why are you doing this to me?" But what we really need to be saying is, "Thank you for this trial because I know that going through this makes me more like you." Our salvation is found in our suffering. We are made into Saints by being forged with persecution and overall hardships.

Throughout the New Testament you can see the suffering that Paul, Stephan, and all the other apostles went through. Stephan was stoned to death, Paul imprisoned, stoned, and beheaded. Going through that suffering and adhering to the creeds of Christ they were gifted salvation. Look at the 40 Holy Martyrs of Sebaste. These men laid their lives down for their faith in Christ and stuck to their faith.

It is through us denying the world and our flesh that we find our salvation. Some of us found Christ when we were in sorrow. Do you not see the pattern? 

Some of you may be thinking "I came to Christ for peace". There is peace in suffering, there is peace in knowing that you suffered for a greater cause, that you ran your race the way Christ intended you too. You sacrificed my own selfish desires and put the mission to bring people to Christ above your own wants. What's more fulfilling than knowing this?

Our Lord said "If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. For what good will it do a person if he gains the whole world, but forfeits his soul? Or what will a person give in exchange for his soul? For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and WILL THEN REPAY EVERY PERSON ACCORDING TO HIS DEEDS." 

When the Romans would hang men on crosses they were known as dead men. We are instructed to take up our cross so we will be none as dead men. There is no where in the Bible that tells us this is going to be fun or easy.





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