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Trouble
January 17, 2013

I was glad to see the final days of the year draw to a close. It had held so much sorrow, sickness, and sadness. I was ready to welcome January with its very own brass band!

But as the first month of the new year arrived, so did one bit of sad news after another. Several friends lost their parents. My dad’s brother slipped away in his sleep. Friends discovered they had cancer. A colleague’s brother and a friend’s son both died tragically and abruptly. Rather than the sad times ceasing, the new year seemed to bring a whole new tsunami of sorrow.

John 16:33 tells us, “In the world you will have tribulation.” Even God’s children are not promised a life of ease, of prosperity, nor of good health. Yet we are never alone in our trouble. Isaiah 43:2 reminds us that when we pass through deep waters, God is with us. Although we don’t always understand God’s purposes in the trials we experience, we can trust His heart because we know Him.

Our God is a God of abundant love and “neither death nor life. . . nor things present nor things to come [will ever] separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom. 8:38-39). When trouble comes, His presence is His promise.

Swift cometh His answer, so clear and so sweet;
“Yea, I will be with thee, thy troubles to meet;
I will not forget thee, nor fail thee, nor grieve;
I will not forsake thee, I never will leave.” —Flint

Faith is believing that God is present
when all we hear is silence.

Read: John 16:25-33

In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. —John 16:33

Bible in a Year:
Genesis 41-42; Matthew 12:1-23

AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!
Honestly this is the story of our lives as 2013 has started.
Just learned that the 7th immediate family member has cancer. Three of my sisters have had breast cancer, two nieces, now a nephew and sister in law with stomach cancer. It is running rampant in our family.

Glad that God’s Presence is with us no matter what the storms look like around us!

“...In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. —John 16:33”
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Tribulation is never welcomed, it is hard, difficult, sad painful, a testing of our strength and character.
Such is life.
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“be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. —John 16:33”
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Hope. Wonderful HOPE ...LOVE, HOPE, FAITH, PRAYER is how the Lord carries us through tough times.

Thank the LORD, for the treasure of His Word in the Torah ... and the Holy Bible, and through the HOLY SPIRIT.

Faith is holding on to the knowledge of the LORD God, Jesus Christ and the Bible as guide and director of everything we meet in life. There are layers of knowledge and they each must be studied and learned and accepted as the guiding star of life.

LOOK at the chaos of this world. Disingrating societies all around ... Faith can move mountains. The Lord Jeus said” be of GOOD CHEER, I have over the world"

Rest in this truth. Daily read the WORD of God. It has all the answers ... that must be matured into understanding, depending on dedication of our heart, with God's help and prayer.