How To See That Suffering Really Serves Us

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"I'm accepted ...by the One Who matters most..." 
There is a certain sturdiness of soul when you don't feel accepted by people, but know you are accepted by the God who controls the universe.
And then we see Jesus. "The Suffering Servant." Who was despised and rejected by men, smitten by God, had no place to lay his head, was an offering 'outside the camp'. 
Our very real friendship with Him is borne out of our longing for love.
I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death...
 
And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood.    Let us, then, go to him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore.    For here we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.
Barren places serve us toward seeking our satisfaction by looking higher. They motivate us to live for Heaven, and to land nowhere short of the heart of Jesus.

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