Praise In the Presence of GodSample

Free from Suffering Why did Jesus Christ endure a lifetime of struggle, loneliness, stress, temptation, pain, and anguish? And why did He die a slow, torturous death of crucifixion, rather than one of instant, painless demise? The answer is that this Lamb is a means of restoration as well as redemption, and His sufferings were an essential part of that mission. Hebrews 2:10 says that through Christ’s sufferings there was a perfecting, that is, a completion of His Saviorhood. That tells us this: The Son of God submitted to a plan that would include a lifetime of the same kind of suffering you and I experience. And this plan would be a means of setting us free from the oppressive power of that suffering. The Visitor