OUR DIFFICULT DAYS: Grandchildren, there will always be times of sickness, trouble, grief, and stress in our lives. We cannot escape them. They are inevitable as we live in this broken world. All nature groans for the day that Jesus cleans up this world and restores everything that humankind and the devil have "messed up".
Someone said something recently -- or I read it somewhere -- that when we pray for difficulties to go away, we may be asking GOD to take away the very things that He is using in our lives to make us more like Jesus. So today I am asking the Lord to help me embrace the challenges of today and the coming days. I'm asking Him to give me a godly attitude as we see in James chapter... one:
"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."
We ought to ask ourselves some questions: What is it that we want most? Do we want our own way and lives of ease and comfort? Or do we want to be the people that God has created us to be? Do we want to escape from the grief of this life (which is only temporary anyway)? Or do we want to be used of God to show His grace to others?
There is a lot of soul searching going on here in my heart -- and I am thinking of a song called "To Be Used Of God". Here is the refrain:
“To be used of God, to sing, to speak, to pray
To be used of God, to show someone the way
I long so much to feel the touch of His consuming fire
To be used of God is my desire.” ~Audrey Mieir
"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."
We ought to ask ourselves some questions: What is it that we want most? Do we want our own way and lives of ease and comfort? Or do we want to be the people that God has created us to be? Do we want to escape from the grief of this life (which is only temporary anyway)? Or do we want to be used of God to show His grace to others?
There is a lot of soul searching going on here in my heart -- and I am thinking of a song called "To Be Used Of God". Here is the refrain:
“To be used of God, to sing, to speak, to pray
To be used of God, to show someone the way
I long so much to feel the touch of His consuming fire
To be used of God is my desire.” ~Audrey Mieir
** This picture is of Samuel and Robert Buza, just "chilling" at a family reunion
No comments:
Post a Comment