When God has a plan for an individual, He often begins with discipline in the form of affliction and sorrow.
Sometimes a storm brings people to their senses and arouses their consciences until they cry to the Lord.
Submit cheerfully. There is no affliction that comes by chance. We are not left to the misery of believing that things happen independent of a divinely controlling power. Not a drop of bitter ever falls into our cup unless the heavenly Father’s wisdom places it there. We dwell where everything is ordered by God. Whenever adversity must come, it is always with a purpose. And if it is God’s purpose, should I wish to escape it?
We have blessed assurance. “All things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called to His purpose. (Rom. 8:28).
Adversity is a healing medicine and not a deadly poison. Thus, without a murmur drink it all and say with your Savior, “O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will” (Mat. 26:39).
Amos 9:9
"For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth."
Every individual believer is precious in the sight of the Lord, a shepherd would not lose one sheep, nor a jeweler one diamond, nor a mother one child, nor a man one limb of his body, nor will the Lord lose one of his redeemed people.
However, little we may be, if we are the Lord's, we may rejoice that we are preserved in Christ Jesus.
Spiritual Thoughts
Jesus laid down His life to show His love for us.
We need to be ready for Christ to come again.
Jesus is the Son of God, the Man beyond time, who gives us eternal life.
Grace and mercy are unearned blessings.
Death
It's better to die for God than live for nothing.
Sometimes a storm brings people to their senses and arouses their consciences until they cry to the Lord.
Submit cheerfully. There is no affliction that comes by chance. We are not left to the misery of believing that things happen independent of a divinely controlling power. Not a drop of bitter ever falls into our cup unless the heavenly Father’s wisdom places it there. We dwell where everything is ordered by God. Whenever adversity must come, it is always with a purpose. And if it is God’s purpose, should I wish to escape it?
We have blessed assurance. “All things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called to His purpose. (Rom. 8:28).
Adversity is a healing medicine and not a deadly poison. Thus, without a murmur drink it all and say with your Savior, “O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will” (Mat. 26:39).
Amos 9:9
"For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth."
Every individual believer is precious in the sight of the Lord, a shepherd would not lose one sheep, nor a jeweler one diamond, nor a mother one child, nor a man one limb of his body, nor will the Lord lose one of his redeemed people.
However, little we may be, if we are the Lord's, we may rejoice that we are preserved in Christ Jesus.
Spiritual Thoughts
Jesus laid down His life to show His love for us.
We need to be ready for Christ to come again.
Jesus is the Son of God, the Man beyond time, who gives us eternal life.
Grace and mercy are unearned blessings.
Death
It's better to die for God than live for nothing.
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