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For there's no other way....

     John 17:4, "I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do."      Sometimes, our days are hard where the rubber meets the road.  Where no one except Christ is there for us and only He is in the trenches with us.  Where He reveals His ultimate pupose for our very lives in the circumstances He allows to come our way each and every day.     Why then do we still question?  Why do we still contemplate what Christ is doing?  Why do we have "Pitty Parties"?  Why not trust?  Why not believe?  Why not practice FAITH?        God is who He says He is;      God will do what He says He will do;      I am who God says I am;      I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength;      God's Word is Alive and Active in me.      I'm Believing God! ~ Beth Moore, "Believing God"      "Trust and Obey for there's no other way to be happy in Jesus but to trust and obey." ~ John H. Sammis, 1887

Flee the Suffering? No, persevere IN it, please

     1 Peter 4:13, "But rejoice that you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when HIS glory is revealed."       In our culture today, we do not want to be identified with Christ's suffering.  Translatation: terminal illness, hardships, difficulties and financially hard times.  We are desperate to be encouraged so we flee without reaping the truthful value of the experience that God wants to use to help us be identified with Him.  (James 1:2-4).   We flee to a short cut.  God's way is rarely, if ever, short.  His way is generally long = Longsuffering to be exact.  Have we forgotten that HE IS our Happiness even in the suffering?  Are we so desperate that we miss the Happiness He affords to us IN these times?         Dear friend, if we will abandon TO His agenda, there is literally no telling what principle(s) we will come to discover.  God has been guiding our way, ..... just so .... so very maticulously, so particularly.  Yet we w