Newsom

Les Newsom (RUF Ole Miss) preached at Trinity Sunday. His Sunday School lesson has really stuck with me the last 24 hours. The lesson was on suffering and the scripture reading was from I Peter 1. In Christ we can only be tested by fire, but not burned.

"in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you(AE) by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven,(AF) things into which angels long to look." I Peter 1:12

The angels long to look at God's plan of salvation and the work of Christ. Jesus took on the full wrath of God so that in our suffering, if we are in Christ by faith, we cannot be burned by the fire. We will survive into eternity. Any suffering we endure is but temporary, no matter what or how bad it may be! One day we will be...

before the throne of God,
and(U) serve him day and night in his temple;
and he who sits on the throne(V) will shelter them with his presence.
16(W) They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore;
(X) the sun shall not strike them,
nor any scorching heat.
17For the Lamb in the midst of the throne(Y) will be their shepherd,
and he will guide them to springs of(Z) living water,
and(AA) God will wipe away every tear from their eyes." Revelation 7:15

I could say so much about this lesson, but alas, I must go bill some hours. Praise be to God our Father who loves us so much that he undertook to pour his full wrath on his own Son in order that we may one day be with him. And he will wipe away every tear from our eyes.