When I wrote about survive versus endure I was not planning on writing a part two, but when I was doing my devotions something popped out in which I needed to add to the whole endure versus survive issue. Mark 12:26-27 "Now about the dead rising--have you not read in the book of Moses, in the account of the bush, how God said to him, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!" When Jesus went to raise Lazarus he spoke to Martha in John 11:25-26 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"
So as a Christian who believes that God sent Jesus to die and pay the penalty for my sins, the only perfect man who walked the earth, 100% man and 100% God who completed the task that was set before him and died on the cross for me. When Jesus died on the cross it was not just the end, but the beginning because he was buried 3 days and then he rose again. He is alive, he did not survive the cross, he endured the cross because he is the God of the living.
I endure trials and suffering, I do not survive because I serve the God of the living. That is exciting.
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