My concern has been to show another dimension of the Bible’s teaching about suffering – the dimension of hope. Someday all the pain and suffering of this world will be gloriously banished. Because of what Jesus Christ did for us through His cross and resurrection, we know that we have hope for the future. We know that in heaven every sin and evil will be banished, and suffering will be no more. The Apostle Paul said, “I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.”
In showing something of what the future life is going to be like, we see how the glory that lies ahead is far greater than any sufferings we might endure here.
But in the meantime, we are called to learn what it means to trust God in every circumstance, and to live for Him no matter what comes our way.
-- Adapted from Billy Graham from the Preface to his book “Who’s in Charge of a World That Suffers?: Trusting God in Difficult Circumstances”
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