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When Troubles Of Any Kind Come
Your Way,
Consider It An Opportunity For Great Joy.
James 1
2 Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles of any kind come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. 3 For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. 4 So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing.
Observation
Kathy
and I have had plenty of opportunities for great joy lately, maybe you have
too! Trouble – Trouble – Trouble via People – People – People … maybe your
faith is being tested too! James, the brother of Jesus, says that the testing
of our faith by troubles gives our faith a chance to grow!
Lord,
help me to remember this passage of scripture for the next time I encounter
“trouble”.
Maybe
He is chiseling, chipping, squeezing, molding, and working on your character
too!
Remember
God will always use people in your life as “Spiritual Sandpaper” and as they
rub you the wrong way, God will use them (if we let Him) to make us more like
His Son Jesus Christ!
Spiritual
Sandpaper People – we all have them!
I
will consider “troubles” and even those who may cause them as an opportunity
for great joy! How about you?
Prayer
Heavenly
Father, I want to be honest and I want You to know that I do not like being
verbally abused or watching Kathy take abuse and You know how much I want to
respond back and be ugly to those who are lashing out at us. But I also know
that Jesus Christ took abuse all the way to the cross. I don’t understand why
those we love so much choose to be unlovely but I know from Your Word today
that we are to consider it an opportunity for great joy and an opportunity to
grow. Help us to see the big picture. Help us to see our lives from Your
perspective. More than anything else in this world I want to please You. Help
me to do that by the way I love people no matter what they do to us.
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