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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=527506" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Why A Lifetime Of Suffering?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If you ask me why <br>good people must<br> <br>endure a life of suffering<br>now I could make reply</div><div style="margin:10px 0">after so many decades living<br>with many answers differing</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I could truthfully say<br>in life to all eventually </div><div style="margin:10px 0">comes a time of testing<br>causes for stumbling </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Jesus said to his disciples <br>“It is unavoidable that causes: <br>for stumbling should come. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nevertheless, woe to the one <br>through whom they come! <br>It would be of more advantage <br>to him if a millstone were </div><div style="margin:10px 0">suspended from his neck<br>and he were thrown into the sea <br>than for him to stumble one <br>of these little ones.” Luke 17: 1-2.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now hear a parable on suffering<br>be warned learn the moral lesson</div><div style="margin:10px 0">for it seems to me all famed worlds<br>wealthy; are rich for but brief seasons </div><div style="margin:10px 0">listen to these wise words told by Jesus<br>the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Jesus said, “There was a certain rich man <br>who was splendidly clothed in purple and <br>fine linen and who lived each day in luxury. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">At his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus <br>who was covered with sores. As Lazarus lay <br>there longing for scraps from the rich man’s </div><div style="margin:10px 0">table, the dogs would come and lick his open <br>sores. “Finally, the poor man died and was <br>carried by the angels to be with Abraham.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The rich man also died and was buried, and <br>his soul went to the place of the dead. There, <br>in torment, he saw Abraham in the far distance </div><div style="margin:10px 0">with Lazarus at his side. “The rich man shouted, <br>‘Father Abraham, have some pity! Send Lazarus <br>over here to dip the tip of his finger in water and </div><div style="margin:10px 0">cool my tongue. I am in anguish in these flames.’<br>(Now I do not know why angels were sent carried<br>Lazarus to be with Abraham surely a great reward.) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“But Abraham said to him, ‘Son, remember that <br>during your lifetime you had everything you wanted, <br>and Lazarus had nothing. So now he is here being </div><div style="margin:10px 0">comforted, and you are in anguish. And besides, <br>there is a great chasm separating us. No one can <br>cross over to you from here, and no one can cross </div><div style="margin:10px 0">over to us from there.’ (A great chasm is wages sin.) <br>“Then the rich man said, ‘Please, Father Abraham, <br>at least send him to my father’s home. For I have </div><div style="margin:10px 0">five brothers, and I want him to warn them so they <br>don’t end up in this place of torment.’ (A warning.) <br>“But Abraham said, ‘Moses and the prophets have </div><div style="margin:10px 0">warned them. Your brothers can read what <br>they wrote.’ “The rich man replied, ‘No, Father <br>Abraham! But if someone is sent to them from </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the dead, then they will repent of their sins and <br>turn to God.’ “But Abraham said, ‘If they won’t <br>listen to Moses and the prophets, they won’t listen </div><div style="margin:10px 0">even if someone rises from the dead.’” This is truth, <br>the rich, the arrogant, are their own gods in life, to <br>none will they listen, deaf to the pleas of the poor. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“I have seen everything during my lifetime <br>of futility; there is a righteous man who perishes <br>in his righteousness and there is a wicked man </div><div style="margin:10px 0">who prolongs his life in his wickedness.” Ecclesiastes 7: 15.<br>A verse proven ever more true in an age of scientific <br>triumph; life prolonging medical marvels.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But truth never changed, man chose to defy God <br>and embrace sin. If God simply wanted 'puppets' <br>to control, God would have made us all puppets.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Instead God created us with free choice, laugh, insult <br>God; call all religion myth, fairy tales; but remember, <br>life choices made will seal your fate for all eternity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Quotation from the New Living Translation (NLT) Luke 16: 19-31.<br>The quotation from Ecclesiastes 7: 15 is from the New American Standard Bible (©1995) . <br></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Terence+George+Craddock">Terence George Craddock</a><div class=q>
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in life to all eventually 

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