{"id":3880,"date":"2019-04-22T20:52:57","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T00:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=3880"},"modified":"2019-04-22T08:53:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T12:53:53","slug":"consent-to-suffer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=3880","title":{"rendered":"Consent to Suffer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20170310_131044-e1498343466491.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2776\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20170310_131044-e1498343466491-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20170310_131044-e1498343466491-169x300.jpg 169w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20170310_131044-e1498343466491-768x1365.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20170310_131044-e1498343466491-576x1024.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Me:&nbsp; Is that a suggestion?<\/p>\n<p>Prodigal:&nbsp; I think it is.<\/p>\n<p>Me:&nbsp; Sometimes you just have to wait and suffer though.<\/p>\n<p>Prodigal:&nbsp; I need help with that.<\/p>\n<p>This is from Stepping Heavenward by Elizabeth Prentiss<\/p>\n<p>If<strong> you find, in the course of daily events, that your self-consecration was not perfect&#8211;that is, that your will revolts at His will&#8211;do not be discouraged, but fly to your Savior and stay in His presence till you obtain the spirit in which He cried in His hour of anguish, &#8220;Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done&#8221; (Luke 22:42).&nbsp; Every time you do this it will be easier to do it; every such consent to suffer will bring you nearer and nearer to Him, and in this nearness to Him, you will find such peace, such blessed, sweet peace as will make your life infinitely happy, no matter what may be its mere outside conditions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God:&nbsp; and the dead in Christ shall rise first.<\/p>\n<p>1 Thessalonians 4:16<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n<p>www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n<p>www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Me:&nbsp; Is that a suggestion? 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