"That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings." — Philippians 3:10
Viktor Frankl was an Austrian psychiatrist. He was also a Holocaust survivor. When the Nazis ordered him to report to a concentration camp, he faced an unbearable choice. He had been invited to flee to America and teach at a university there. But his elderly parents could not survive the journey. So he stayed. He lost his manuscript, the work of a lifetime. He lost his parents. He lost nearly everything in the crucible of Auschwitz.
But he discovered something they could not take from him.
The guards would come in and beat him and torture him. And when they came in, Frankl would ask them how their families were. How their children were. They were stunned by it. One of them finally asked him, how do you do that? After everything we're doing to you, how do you ask us how we are?
Frankl said, you've taken everything from me that you can take. You cannot take how I choose to respond.
Paul would not have been surprised by that at all. He wrote Philippians from a Roman prison. Beaten. Scarred. Chained. And he called the fellowship of Christ's sufferings the highest fellowship a human being can enter into. Not because suffering is good, but because it is in the depths of suffering that we discover what cannot be taken from us, our relationship with a living Savior.
What are you facing right now that feels like it's taking everything? Friend, they can't take that.
Let's pray: Lord, in our suffering, draw us into the deep fellowship of knowing You. Let nothing separate us from Your love. In Jesus' name, Amen.
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