Suffering

This post is also from my husband. I was still getting the courage to share my heart.

Journal entry by Scott — Jan 19, 2017
Sometimes God selects people to suffer. Who would be the first to volunteer for that selection? I would like to be selected for some other honor from God; anything but suffering especially when it affects our children.
After many years of Logan’s other surgeries, multiple days spent in ICU’s by Ann, Jaci and Ashleigh, many family deaths, my disease and hearing loss, and Logan’s accident, I have finally accepted that for some unknown reason, God has selected me to suffer. If you are chosen by God for anything, you must be obedient and make the best of it.

It is not what happens to you that matters. It is way you react to it that matters most. We must do all we do for God’s glory.

Is it possible to suffer well? I have recently had the privilege to witness a good friend endure a horrific tragedy. He has been a light and inspiration to me in the way he walked upright through Satan’s evil darts. He did the right thing when the world would have accepted the wrong thing. It IS possible to “suffer well.” He is my example.

Part of the reason we are going through this is because God wants us to “suffer well.” Part of suffering well is helping others that suffer.

2 Corinthians 1:3-4
God of All Comfort
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

Logie always wanted to comfort people…God wants us to be comforted and to comfort others…