Fear Not, You Were Raised To This

Good Morning!! Sometimes the light is eclipsed. At certain times, clouds can cover the believer's sun,...and we must walk in darkness and see no light. There are many who have rejoiced in the presence of God for a season; they have basked in the sunshine in the earlier stages of their Christian career; they have walked along the "green pastures" by the side of the "still waters", but suddenly they find the glorious sky is clouded; instead of the Land of Goshen they have to tread the sandy desert; in place of the sweet waters, they find troubled streams,...bitter to their taste, and they say, "Surely, if I were a child of God, this would not happen."

"...you are my refuge in the day of disaster."—Jeremiah 17:17 (NIV)

The best of God's saints must drink the wormwood,...the dearest of his children must bear the cross. No Christian has enjoyed perpetual prosperity. Perhaps the Lord allotted you at first a smooth and unclouded path, because you were weak and timid. He tempered the wind to the fleeced lamb, but now that you are stronger in the spiritual life,...you must enter upon the riper, and rougher experience of God's full grown children.

We need winds and tempests to exercise our faith, to tear off the false sense of self-dependence,...and to root us more firmly in Christ.

The real key is to remember that; He never gives us more than we can bare.

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The hard times, and pains of life, reveals to us the value of our glorious hope,...and it's an opportunity to put our faith into action. Praise God.

" What you believe about life ,will determine how you perceive life,
...and what you receive from it."