If you are suffering, and suffering has left you discouraged and more given to complaint than praise, it’s very important that you don’t assume the accuracy and logic of your perspectives on life. If complaint has the power to focus your vision, it can also twist and bend your perception of reality and the God who rules it. In this way, every sufferer needs to have their assumptions about life lovingly challenged, both by the clarifying truths of Scripture and the loving corrections of the body of Christ. Maybe you don’t see things clearly, maybe your assumptions aren’t accurate, and maybe God
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