About Colossians 1:24
Posted by tom | Jan 5, 2010A brother in Christ passed along these thoughts regarding Colossians 1:24 and I share them with you for our mutual edification:
still thinking about the colossians 1 statement about our "filling up the afflictions lacking in christ"...and it's not just the normal persecution of believers by those who hate God...it's something much more significant...Christ's suffering was for payment for our sins, ours is in the spreading of the gospel...God has ordained that believers' suffering is essential to drawing many to Christ...a great mystery...
ps...we know of the great physical suffering of christians in other countries...we seem so comfortable by comparison...but even you and i go through emotional suffering as we attempt to reach out to others..that is very difficult to handle..."He was despised and rejected, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief"
