Why A Lifetime Of Suffering?
If you ask me why
good people must
endure a life of suffering
now I could make reply
after so many decades living
with many answers differing
I could truthfully say
in life to all eventually
comes a time of testing
causes for stumbling
Jesus said to his disciples
“It is unavoidable that causes:
for stumbling should come.
Nevertheless, woe to the one
through whom they come!
It would be of more advantage
to him if a millstone were
suspended from his neck
and he were thrown into the sea
than for him to stumble one
of these little ones.” Luke 17: 1-2.
Now hear a parable on suffering
be warned learn the moral lesson
for it seems to me all famed worlds
wealthy; are rich for but brief seasons
listen to these wise words told by Jesus
the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus.
“Jesus said, “There was a certain rich man
who was splendidly clothed in purple and
fine linen and who lived each day in luxury.
At his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus
who was covered with sores. As Lazarus lay
there longing for scraps from the rich man’s
table, the dogs would come and lick his open
sores. “Finally, the poor man died and was
carried by the angels to be with Abraham.
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poem by Terence George Craddock
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