Text: Hebrews 2:10 NKJV

Further Reading: Hebrews 2:9-12

For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

Hebrews 2:10 NKJV

MESSAGE

We do not have a high priest who does not sympathise and feel for us in our sufferings. This is because He also had a fair share of suffering to become our worthy high priest. Christ can understand our temptations and trials because He had been there and was victorious (Hebrews 4:15).

The path to this eternal priesthood of Christ was made possible by His suffering. The Bible told us that He had to learn obedience through suffering and being made perfect by the experience of suffering, He became the author of eternal salvation unto all that obey Him (Hebrews 5:8-9).

The suffering and death of Christ made Him a worthy fit to be called our Saviour by the resurrection power. We read in our text of the day that the captain of our salvation was made perfect through suffering.

God may be using the suffering in your life to shape you for better things. As sister Elizabeth Elliott said, Suffering is not for nothing. Since God uses the best for His glory, He also does His best to make them fit for His service. This may be done at the price of suffering.

Throughout the church’s history, God has used suffering and persecution to purge the church. Many individuals whom God has used have also been made perfect by suffering. You can think about Joseph, and how God used his suffering to prepare him for the throne.

The path Joseph took was filled with pains and many struggles, but they were there to make him perfect. In the end, Joseph became a governor in Egypt.

Since you don’t know what God is preparing ahead of you, you can be sure that if He allows suffering in your life, it is for the best, it is to make you perfect and fit for His service. Do not shy away from your suffering but rather allow God to use it to make you a worthy instrument of revival and transformation in your time.

REFLECTION

And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him,

Hebrews 5:9 NKJV

Your light affliction is working to make you become a vessel unto honour in God’s hands. Relax God is making a rare gem out of you.

PRAYER

Father, please make me perfect for your service through every challenge I pass through in life.