Our Affliction Is Momentary and Light!!!

Our Affliction Is Momentary and Light!!!

This is written as an established fact! Strangely enough, this has been stated even more strongly in the old covenant during the time of the shadow: “In all their affliction there was no affliction.” Isa. 63:9. However, who experiences it like that? Every single person who, according to the true saying “everything is relative,” that is, everything must be viewed in relation to something else, sees the inner renewal and transformation, the exceeding fullness of glory, and being molded to be the bride of Christ and to become His true fellow brother so unspeakably great and glorious and valuable, that relative to this all kinds of afflictions, reproaches, and insults as well as all kinds of “tribulations” are just some momentary, light trifles, or in other words, something to be reckoned as nothing!

In order to strengthen as many people as possible to have a living faith in this—in direct opposition to all the powers of unbelief that fill the earth, so to speak, I do not want to fail to add that this has actually been my experience for many years—I, who am a former, pathetic, hopeless wretch.

When this is your attitude of mind then—but not otherwise—everything that we normally call adversity, tribulations, and difficulties are just “good fortune,” just like James experienced it, exhorting us to the same life and to experience it. Jas. 1:2, 4.

The simplest and best word for everything being relative is probably Jesus’ word, “One thing is necessary.” This one necessary thing is that we are thoroughly saved and transformed! Everything else is unnecessary in relation to this one thing!

For example, it is absolutely unnecessary to receive the honor that people owe you. We receive just the right amount of this honor from God Himself! No man can hinder that! It is definitely not necessary to be treated righteously and well by other people. It is amply sufficient that God Himself treats me justly and mercifully! It is absolutely sufficient that God loves me with all of His heart unto a glorious salvation. What others do does not change this matter in the least, but it can change their state. God takes care of all such things!

Romans 8:28 is something that can remind us of a wonderful fairy tale or a dream, but as all the rest of God’s Word, it is perfectly true! “And we know that all things work together for good [other translations: for the best] . . . .” Therefore also all possible kinds of tribulations; all so-called adversities and all the evil and unreasonable and stupid things that God permits us to encounter on our way from unconverted and converted people!

If we have received grace to believe this, then everything that happens to us is intended for our best!