Newness and rejuvenation come with the morning. The sun rises and brings with it hope and awakens joy. The night of sadness and darkness recedes, melts and is replaced with the goodness of light and beauty of the new day. However, this newness, this rejuvenation comes, but there are still storms and trials. One cannot live in the newness always, but must trek through the muck and trials of life. Mr. Lewis refers to pain as being the megaphone God uses to speak (roughly spoken) and to this I agree. If we are not pained and put through difficulties, for what reason do we have to reach our feeble hands upward towards a Saviour? Oswald Chambers talks of identifying with Christ and says that "God's way is always the way of suffering, the way of the 'long, long trail.'" Thus, we must be partakers in Christ's suffering...we must lay down our rights to gain freedom-paradox? Yes...
Pain will come and it will mold, shape, break...but then we will be made new. His way is suffering, but it also freedom-losing oneself to find true liberty-odd thing Christianity...
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