Tune: Breslau
('Take up they cross, the Saviour said')
1 Peter 4 v.13-16
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Rejoice, in that you do partake
Of Christ's sufferings for His sake
That when His glory be revealed
[Then] Gladness, and great joy unconcealed
If you be reproached for the name
Of Christ, know He suffered the same
Yet blessed are you, for the spirit
Of glory rests on you each whit
He the spirit of God, and though
Afflictions, insults you may know
From they who evil of Christ speak
But [He is] glorified in you, the meek
Let none suffer as murderer
Not thief, nor as evildoer
Nor as busybodies, meddlings
Interfering in other's things
Yet if any one as Christian
Suffers, no need for shame, no one
But glorify God through suffering
Trusting that He bring good, each thing
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Author:
orchidee (
Offline) - Published: November 15th, 2021 03:05
- Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 8.8.8.8. metre, aiming to make some sense of suffering. We can perhaps understand 'Christian suffering' for the gospel, people hating Christ, etc. But what about special needs (or previous hideous word, handicapped), wars, famines, etc? We just don't know humanly, in some cases. Peter here aims to see constructive uses of suffering.
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Comments4
Still churning them out Orchi - Miss Berles has a supply of ink cartridges in case you run out.
Thanks M. Do I 'cheat'? Write two, maybe three some days, and none other days?! lol.
Best that we can only post one per day on here, I think. We would never have time to read them all otherwise.
Patronising crap. Go worship a god who creates babies with so called "learning difficulties" (a farcical PC term if ever there was one) if only to show what great big holes you are prepared to accept in your omnipotent god.
This is what I tried to explain in my introductory comment.
Here's another saying: 'Suffering can put may people off religion/Christianity/ whatever you call it'. I don't know who first said this - maybe I did?!
Good one orchi
It’s a pleasant read
So much I learn from your spiritual thoughts
Yet irony so well developed in those lines
Thanks S.
Good one Orchi.
Thanks Gold. I hope it's of some comfort, in your kind of suffering. 🙂
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