Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
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We typically think of—and pray for—God to intervene in our lives to remove trials, pain, difficulties, and hardships. Calvin’s view is the opposite: God intervenes in our lives by placing trials, pain, difficulties, and hardships in our lives. Whatever ails us in our spiritual lives, the remedy, Calvin says, is the blessing of a cross to bear.
Not a few members of our small group struggled with this idea. Particularly those who were experiencing real, present, pervasive, life-altering, dream-shattering, soul-crushing, inescapable suffering.
The intellectual answer is simple: God ordains trials in our lives for our good (see James 1:2-4 and Romans 8:28-29).
The experiential answer is much more revealing because the real, present, pervasive, life-altering, dream-shattering, soul-crushing inescapable experience of suffering digs down to our deepest desires: What do you hope for in this life? Read it all...
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