We Can Rejoice In Our Suffering
When we or a child are in pain, it is easy to dwell on the “broken right hand.” Oh, how we want to be spared the hardship and the tears. Braddock would never have chosen the pain he walked through, just as we would never choose to experience ours—or allow our kids to experience theirs. And yet God is wiser than we are. Braddock’s story gives us a glimpse of why God tells us to “rejoice in our sufferings.” Those hard times we would never have chosen will produce endurance, character, and a hope that we would never trade.
Two and a half years after that conversation, Jeff and I had tears streaking our cheeks for a different reason. At the year-end awards ceremony, Luke was called onstage for not one but two academic medals. Medals he earned not really that year, but during those hard months and years before. Those months when he had stayed inside working so hard, trying to figure out how to learn things again, and not losing hope while he did it—strengthening his left hand.
Excerpt taken from Shaunti’s devotional Find Peace from iDisciple Publishing
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