What Max Says

A post to an email list in response to a question about suffering etc.

Max Lucado says in one of his books concerning this that he sees the whole concept as a scale......you know....one of those old fashioned kinds of scales with the weights on one side and the stuff you weigh on the other? I think they call them a pan scale? Well, on the one side is all the hurts and heartaches and trials and problems we experience and suffer through. Plunk goes the scale....and he does not remove any of the things that we have suffered....yet.....after this life is over.....this life the Bible compares to a wisp of vapor......he so loads down the other side of the scale with incomprehensible glory that it totally and completely outweighs the bad things. There is a saying I read somewhere...and not to diminish the very real trials and heartaches some of you have endured but it goes something like this.......From heaven, even the most terrible life will look no worse than an inconvenient night in a bad hotel. or as Paul says it:For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us."

I am not making light of this whole issue. It is something that I have struggled with as well.

Cindi.......