Essentially, the Preacher wants us to understand that because God ordains days of both blessing and hardship, there is a place for both in our fallen creation. We should not think that days of trouble are any less from the hand of God than are days of ease and abundance. This will help prevent us from thinking that the Lord is acting less kindly toward us on our difficult days than He is on our easy ones.
Morning Protestant Devotional Ping! (Except Mark16, for whom it is an evening devotional.)
Want on or off? Let me know! FAITH!
Thanks Game, and good morning!
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You know, we have this tendency to say when things are going good, that we are blessed, or that the other person is blessed, and indeed we are.
The problem with that thinking is that it can easily lead to the opposite thinking that when things are not going well, some how we are NOT blessed. What do you say to someone then?
Well, we are blessed anyway. Simply because God tells us that we are blessed, in good times and bad. Our external circumstances are not the barometer of how blessed we are.
caww, on another thread, you asked me for clarification on the comment I made about focusing on what I know to be true.
This is a GREAT example. What God told me was to focus on what I know to be true. What I know to be true, is this: that in Christ, in the Beloved, I AM blessed, even when things are going in a way that would not lead me to know that.
Ephesians 1:3-10 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.
In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
How much more blessed can we be than to have Christ and His fullness?
Good morning and thank you!
God Bless