When I begin this blog I had no idea, obviously, what the future would hold. I know that life can be challenging and sometimes difficult but we can live through most of the things that happen to us and around us. I believe, in a wonderful way, God led me to begin this blog as a way of preparing for some difficult things in my life.
We can't always see at the moment what God is doing but once the "event" or circumstance has passed we look back and we see God right there; always walking beside us and in some cases carrying us through.
I have experienced another realization - God doesn't always remove us from the circumstance. Jesus went through a time of temptation. Peter fell to temptation twice (that we know of). Paul was unforgiving toward John Mark. God has the power to take us out of the difficulties we often face but more often then not He allows us to remain in the difficulty rather than remove us from it. It seems that sometimes He doesn't heal some folks until death. It seems that we hit "bottom" before things begin to improve.
Here is what I believe a part of the point is - God uses these circumstances in our lives to help us to understand more clearly how dependent we are upon Him! What are we going to do if God does not provide? We will perish! The nature of God is love and He loves His children. He will not allow us to face adversity that He will not provide the strength to endure. Our response is to be one of faithfulness because He is faithful; our response is to persevere because Jesus endured the cross scorning it's shame. We are to be obedient to His word because Jesus was.
"I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives within me. The life I live in the body, I life by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me" Galatians 2:20
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