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3589 — Righteousness and Suffering

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 17, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 41.

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3589 — Righteousness and Suffering

"If we could perfectly keep the laws of God, we should be perfectly free from suffering," said a preacher. Was he correct, think you?
Yes, if we had always kept them. If one had never sinned, one would have never known death or pain. In love and sympathy for other sufferers, he may have suffered. That is possible; but in and of himself he would not suffer, if he were perfectly in harmony physically, mentally, and spiritually with God's laws. "In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death." All the sin and suffering and pain of this world have come in consequence of sin; and when sin is blotted out, then, God declares, there shall be no more death, nor pain, nor sorrow, nor suffering. See Rev. 21:1-7.