The Other Side of Desperation

The Other Side of Desperation

²⁸ And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.

Romans 8:28

New Living Translation (NLT)

8) ³³ I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

John 16:33 (ESV)

Quick thoughts today.........

After about a year or two of continuous trials and tribulations, I can finally start to see the other side of all this junk.  PRAISE!  I'm still trying to figure out what all I need to have learned from the past few years, but regardless I am doing better.  Thanks for all of your prayers.  

When you are in the midst of trials, it's very hard to focus on these types of verses because they probably will just anger you or depress you.  In the first verse, we see that God promises to the Christian that anything that happens to us will be used by God for His will.  That is comforting if you think about it.  Even if we said and did things during our trials that we aren't proud of, have no fear because something good will come from it!

In John 16:33 we see that we are promised tribulation, so for those of you who may believe that as long as you live your life right then you won't have to deal with spiritual and personal trials......Please read the above verse again.  The great thing is that even though we are promised tribulations.....we are also promised peace!  Now this peace might just be spiritual peace about where you will spend eternity.....but like Forrest Gump said....."It's one less thing"   I'm not making light of eternal salvation just saying that as a Christian we are promised peace....not peace in our world, but peace in our heart about our eternity no matter what Satan or the world throws at us.

The important thing that I have learned is to stay the course no matter what.....I haven't written as much as I used to, but I've written!  I haven't prayed as much as I should have through all this....but I did pray!  During your trials just remember to keep on course.  Don't let go of your relationship with God because it took His Son dying on the cross for you to be able to have that relationship.

God Bless!