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To: metmom
I don’t know that I will ever be able to eat most food again, but what He has done in me through this affliction, was worth the cost.

Like Job came to say, "Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.". What greater testimony to the lost than for a believer to get to that level of spiritual maturity! The lost world looks at suffering Christians and, like Job's unfaithful friends, say, "Why don't you just curse God and die!?". They marvel that we can still praise God even in the midst of suffering, but that is one of the purposes of the stuff He allows into ours lives - that ONLY a genuine faith in a genuine God can carry someone through it. It proves that there is a there there! It cannot be faked.

322 posted on 05/19/2013 11:15:24 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: boatbums
Like Job, I can also say ....

Job 19:25-27 For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God, whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another.

333 posted on 05/20/2013 4:25:46 AM PDT by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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