The One Year Bible - Day 99

Luke 13 challenges a principal that is quite common even amongst Christians and that is the link between sin and suffering. We measure our 'success' as a Christian by how fruitful or blessed our lives are and tend to assume that things only go wrong when we step outside of the will of God. This was a very deeply entrenched Jewish belief in much the same way and Jesus puts the boot in to this principle. In fact He makes it much more simple. Repent or Perish! The fact that some people's lives are more blessed than others does not imply some sort of automatic salvation and certainly doesn't prove that a person has a proper belief in God. If we see with the eyes of faith then we can have a knowledge of our salvation DESPITE our circumstances.