Joy, No Matter What!
By Mark Flippo
James 1:2-4 (MSG)
Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don’t try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way.
Have you ever been in a place that you are so overwhelmed that it was even hard to smile? Your head over the toilet bowl throwing up so much you just want it to be over. Forgive this gross analogy that your sitting on the toilet and you are have a upside down volcano action going on and you are praying for all your worth for God to intervene. We all have those times that we just want to go to sleep for a few days. Have you ever asked God during one of those times to just let you die?
I have a long time ago. I am very glad He did not do what I asked Him to. Chronic pain can lay you low. I try to remember that Jesus suffered horrible things that were done to Him and He did not destroy those that hated Him. He could have killed every one of them with just a thought. Now when you are suffering remember Jesus knows about pain. He hears your every prayer. If your are in a bad way right now it is to teach you something about Him that you could not learn any other way. Try Praising Him in spite of all that is going on in your body!
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By Mark Flippo
James 1:2-4 (MSG)
Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don’t try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way.
Have you ever been in a place that you are so overwhelmed that it was even hard to smile? Your head over the toilet bowl throwing up so much you just want it to be over. Forgive this gross analogy that your sitting on the toilet and you are have a upside down volcano action going on and you are praying for all your worth for God to intervene. We all have those times that we just want to go to sleep for a few days. Have you ever asked God during one of those times to just let you die?
I have a long time ago. I am very glad He did not do what I asked Him to. Chronic pain can lay you low. I try to remember that Jesus suffered horrible things that were done to Him and He did not destroy those that hated Him. He could have killed every one of them with just a thought. Now when you are suffering remember Jesus knows about pain. He hears your every prayer. If your are in a bad way right now it is to teach you something about Him that you could not learn any other way. Try Praising Him in spite of all that is going on in your body!
http://moderndayparablesrcf.com