I also knew I’d forgiven all my prison guards….…for Louie Zamperini, the war was over.’Īfter all he had been through, we would understand if Zamperini remained imprisoned by bitterness, resentment, pain, and addiction. I knew then that I was through getting drunk, smoking, and chasing around. The Bible calls it the peace that passes all understanding. Then, in 1949, Zamperini went with his wife to hear the Reverend Billy Graham preach where he asked God for forgiveness and accepted Jesus as his Savior: ‘I felt this perfect calm, a peace. He suffered from PTSD and recurring nightmares, turning to alcohol to self-medicate. He survived disease, malnutrition, exposure and regular beatings.Īfter the war, Zamperini’s past haunted him. A prisoner of war for two years, Zamperini faced abuse and torment from his captors.
On a search and rescue mission, loss of power sent him crashing into the Pacific Ocean where he floated on a life raft, 47 days lost at sea, threatened by unrelenting sun, starvation, storms, and sharks. But his endurance on the track was nothing compared to what he endured in his 97 years of life.Īs a WWII Army Air Corps bombardier, Zamperini faced equipment malfunctions and enemy fire he saw friends die. On the 1936 US Olympic Team, Zamperini finished one of the fastest final laps in the history of the 5000-meter. Zamperini could run a mean mile, on pace to break four-minutes. Louis Zamperini’s life story (captured in Laura Hillebrand’s best-selling novel Unbroken) bears witness to this verse.
This beautiful result is no credit to suffering, but it happens ‘because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit.’ But times of pain, loss, and grief grow compassion in us, lessen earth’s grip on us, deepen our faith in God and our eternal and sure hope of heaven. Human nature wants a life of beauty and ease for ourselves and our children, for earthly streets of gold to lead us directly to the heavenly ones. Even limited experience with suffering shows these words are true. At the same time, our spirits long to believe it-that no suffering is wasted, that suffering produces endurance and character and hope.
We simply don’t want to believe that any good thing comes from suffering. info under CC BY 3.Our hearts and minds war against the first part of this verse. Some scripture references/categories courtesy of Open Bible. If a verse or topic does not belong, please contact us. Topics and verses are auto-generated from user searches.
Revelation 3:11 - Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. Matthew 24:13 - But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.ġ Peter 5:7 - Casting all your care upon him for he careth for you.Įphesians 6:18 - Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints Proverbs 3:5-6 - Trust in the LORD with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding. Hebrews 10:36 - For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. James 1:2-4 - My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations (Read More.) Hebrews 12:1-15 - Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, (Read More.)Ģ Thessalonians 3:13 - But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing. Galatians 6:9 - And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.ġ Chronicles 16:11 - Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his face continually.Ģ Timothy 2:12 - If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us: Romans 5:3-5 - And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience (Read More.) James 1:12 - Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
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