Perspective

By Randy Alcorn

Prosperity theology claims that God's love causes Him to withhold suffering from His children. The Bible, on the other hand, insists that God's love empowers His children to live gracefully and gratefully with their suffering. We do not testify to the world that we suffer less; we testify that God empowers us to face suffering with perspective. "Dear friends, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that has come on you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice inasmuch as  you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed." (1 Peter 4:12-13).

We do not testify to the world

that we suffer less; we testify that

God empowers us to face

suffering with  perspective.