"We count those blessed who endured. You have heard of the endurance of Job and have seen the outcome of the Lord's dealings, that the Lord is full of compassion and is merciful."
James 5:11
Life can sure seem hard at times. It seems that we are all struggling to make it most of the time. Yes, there are good times when we are happy and satisfied, but when we cast our minds back, we so often remember the tough times. This is especially true when we are enduring them currently. We sort of pile our present circumstances on to what we feel is a history of tough times.
Why do we find it so easy to look upon our lives with such pessimism? In what nirvana do we really expect to live? There is no life without challenges, complications and difficulties. Even a scant survey of the life of Christ will reveal the most difficult life ever lived. Jesus, however, never lamented his circumstances.
Beloved, if we choose to look back, let us not seek consolidation of woes. If we look with the proper focus, we will see that God has always been there to deliver us through those challenging times. Perhaps the job we lost was to make way for a new and better one. Perhaps running late saved us from an accident. Perhaps the end of a relationship preserved us from a future with the wrong person. We cannot know the things that God is working out in our future, but we must know of the things He has accomplished in our past.
There was a time when it seemed that every time I got a little ahead, something would come along and take it away. I eventually learned that God had so fixed it that every time something would come a long, there was a way for it to be taken care of.
Let us remember that if we can look back on difficult circumstances, God has already delivered us through them. And if you feel that you are enduring much now, be assured that He is in the process of delivering you through current circumstances as well. The only things we need to do is have faith and fix our attitudes.
Loving Like Jesus,
Lee
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