Expecting tragedy is the third step to dealing with tragedy

Welcome to The Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.

This is a ministry of striving for eternity. A third step for understanding and preparing for tragedy as it comes is to know that it's going to come.

It is the knowledge that we can expect tragedy in our lives.

Now, we saw already that for the unbeliever, there is an ultimate tragedy coming, a calamity on that final judgment day, and there is no unbeliever that will escape that.

However, even for Christians, there is a calamity that could come, and Paul provides for us an example of that.

The other two times that we saw that this word for calamity is used in the Greek is in 2

Corinthians 6. First, we take a look at 2 Corinthians 6, verse 4, where he says, So he gives a whole bunch of reasons to expect that there would be these calamities, but even more so in 2

Corinthians 12, verse 10, where he says, For when

I am weak, then I am strong. And that's the key to understanding that we must know the calamities are coming.

We can't think that we will be avoiding them in this world. When in a world system that is against God, they will be against Christians as well.

Now, tomorrow, we're going to take a look at this verse to see that this key is knowing that we must depend upon Christ.

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