Have you ever had days when everything started out wrong...and the whole day continued down hill? Days when you spill the milk, coffee, juice--maybe just one item, or perhaps all three. You stub your toe, fall over the cat, and about now you are stomping mad. Stop, take a deep breath, have a quiet prayer, then begin again. Even if nothing around you changes, your attitude can.
As an artist I've learned that pictures are best viewed from a distance--if we are too close we get too much...and not enough...of the picture. Life and circumstances are like that--if viewed too close we get too much...and too little...of the picture. Stepping back a distance can help us see maybe a bigger picture.
What can we learn from sickness? What can we learn from troubles? When we are in the midst of trials, no matter what they may be, it is very hard to step back and look at the picture. Different people will learn different lessons from the same situations, but...
*Sickness? We can learn to take one day at a time; or that life here on earth won't last forever. *perhaps it may help us find a courage/a strength of character that we didn't know we were capable of.
*How many people have gone through life not paying attention to either God or eternity until a change in their sense of security.
*Sorrow and adversity usually either draws people to God, or they turn away from Him.
*It can teach people that real treasure is not something you can buy, but it can be sold (or exchanged) for something of far less value.
2Corinthians 4:8-9 "we are pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair; pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed;", and 2Cor. 4:16 "Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day."
John 10:10 "The thief cometh not, but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy: I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. 11) I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd layeth down his life for the sheep."
Don't be discouraged by the setbacks in life. Look through the struggles and find your treasure before the treasure is gone. Above all, don't trade the treasures for the dross of life.
What do you think?
Hallelujah! Learn to lean on the Saviour!
As an artist I've learned that pictures are best viewed from a distance--if we are too close we get too much...and not enough...of the picture. Life and circumstances are like that--if viewed too close we get too much...and too little...of the picture. Stepping back a distance can help us see maybe a bigger picture.
What can we learn from sickness? What can we learn from troubles? When we are in the midst of trials, no matter what they may be, it is very hard to step back and look at the picture. Different people will learn different lessons from the same situations, but...
*Sickness? We can learn to take one day at a time; or that life here on earth won't last forever. *perhaps it may help us find a courage/a strength of character that we didn't know we were capable of.
*How many people have gone through life not paying attention to either God or eternity until a change in their sense of security.
*Sorrow and adversity usually either draws people to God, or they turn away from Him.
*It can teach people that real treasure is not something you can buy, but it can be sold (or exchanged) for something of far less value.
2Corinthians 4:8-9 "we are pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair; pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed;", and 2Cor. 4:16 "Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day."
John 10:10 "The thief cometh not, but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy: I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. 11) I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd layeth down his life for the sheep."
Don't be discouraged by the setbacks in life. Look through the struggles and find your treasure before the treasure is gone. Above all, don't trade the treasures for the dross of life.
What do you think?
Hallelujah! Learn to lean on the Saviour!
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