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All of us deserve to suffer for our sins. Luke 6:20-28; 16:19-31 How Daniels Prophecy of 70 Weeks Connects to the End Times. O 12 Bible verses about Blessings, Spiritual - Knowing Jesus That plan incorporates all things (Romans 8:28), which includes pain, suffering, and sorrow. Not one of them received the promised blessing. While we should not seek suffering in this life, we should expect it, recognizing it as a part of the plan of a loving God who is bringing about our good and His glory. The Christian life should be lived out in the light of the superiority of God's promised blessings in comparison to the "blessings" an ungodly world holds out to us (Hebrews 11:24-26). Of late I have been having discussions with my friends around what it means to be blessed. For there are no pains in their death; And their body is fat. The prophets suffered themselves and also spoke of the Messiah to come as the One who would suffer for the sins of men (Isaiah 52:13--53:12). They suffered for Gods sake and not for their own sins (Psalm 44:22). Jesus teaching concerning His own suffering and death took His disciples by surprise: From that time Jesus Christ began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised up on the third day. One only needs enough faith to be confident God hears and answers our prayers as we desire. Thou dost give us as sheep to be eaten, And hast scattered us among the nations. If we had forgotten the name of our God, Or extended our hands to a strange god; Would not God find this out? Later Judah and his brothers suffered much over their ill-treatment of Joseph (see Genesis 37-45). Esau's Limited Blessing Like Lot, we find our righteous souls vexed by sin (2 Peter 2:7-8). They are paupers I mean, poverty-stricken paupers compared to the lowliest Christian. If we are a child of God, we know His eternal plan allows only those things into our lives which result in our ultimate and eternal good: And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose (Romans 8:28).