Views about suffering?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Lee1
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
Some visionaries have expressed a desire to suffer in order to make reparation to Jesus for sins and/or to save souls. This typically happens after they see their visions of Mary or Jesus asking them to do this or suggesting in some way that more people should.
 
Tis_Bearself said:
Some visionaries have expressed a desire to suffer in order to make reparation to Jesus for sins and/or to save souls. This typically happens after they see their visions of Mary or Jesus asking them to do this or suggesting in some way that more people should.
Click to expand...
Understandable for them but I am no visionary.
 
We may be weak but we may still be forced into combat, ie the world may cause us to suffer even though we are weak, this leads us to lean heavily on the strength of The Lord, driving us closer to Him and helping us to overcome our travails.
 
Well, most of us don’t desire to suffer, so if you also don’t, then congratulations, you’re normal.

Jesus, who was fully human, even asked if there was some way this cup could be taken from him.

Don’t sweat it.
 
Why? Perhaps this:

Rom 5:3 More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit

James says a very similar thing, see James 1:2-4, so that we may be perfect, lacking nothing.
 
Last edited:
I’m glad that your suffering has decreased. It seems you learned a great deal from it too. It’s good if we can benefit in some way like that.
 
For the redemption of others and/or the self and for reparation of sins of the self and/or others. In other words for love.
In a very simple example parents chose to suffer all the time for the their children and in many if not all cases would take the pain that said children suffer on themselves if they could. Many of us would do this for people we love, my mom has sciatica at the moment, I’d take that pain from her now gladly if I could, poor mom. I love her.
In perfect love, which Jesus has and we as Christians aim to move towards with His grace, we accept and chose to suffer for the redemption of other people (our brothers and sisters in Christ) who we love as ourselves (with God’s grace) for the sins (sufferings and spiritual illnesses) . This means that we suffer for these brothers and sisters because of love and trust that God uses this sufferings to repair their (and our) faults as we are all the body of Christ. Christ is the head and we are the body. This is why we want to suffer, it is with God’s grace, to repair the body of Christ.
 
Last edited:
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top