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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

It was your great American wit, Mark Twain, who once said, 'Man is the only animal that blushes, and the only animal that needs to.' We are ashamed, are we not, of things we've done in the past. Nobody is free who is unforgiven. Instead of being able to look God in the face or to look one another in the face, we want to run away and hide when our conscience troubles us.
John Stott

Despite the obvious emphasis of Scripture (in regard to suffering), we are bombarded by suggestions that the “successful” Christian living takes place in the realm of constant victory, health, wholeness, and financial prosperity. In response to this we are not to pretend that suffering doesn’t exist or that it might be instantly cured. Such notions are the product of empty heads and closed Bibles.
Alistair Begg