JOY IN SPITE OF TRIBULATION
Here is an exerpt from my devotional that i thought was AWESOME!!!
huge wave that would frighten an ordinary swimmer produce a tremendous thrill for the surfer who has ridden them. The things we try to avoid and fight against - tribulation, suffering, and persecution - are the very things that produce abundance joy in us. "We are more than conquerors through him" "in all these things"; not in spite of them, but in the midst of them. A saint doesn't know the joy of the lord in spite of tribulation, but because of it! Paul said "I am exceedingly joyful in all our tribulation" I THOUGHT THIS WAS AWESOME - THROUGH ALL SMILE, AND LIVE WITH JOY!!!
Things are going great! love ya! Petra
posted by JtotheSstaff @ 6:35 PM
1 Comments:
Petra I love you...just thought I'd say that...
It's crazy that you bring this up...actually its crazy how God works because every spiritual conversation I have had within the past two weeks has somehow been related to something I have just been talking to someone about or something like that...It's all connected...and my friend Rique and I were talking about joy and suffering the other night.
Its something that i know i really struggled with first semester this year. While there weren't the typically college kid stumbling blocks or some big devastating event that was throwing my world for a loop, but as most of you know, i just felt like i was in such a weird place with God and it was such a trial, but now I am filled with such such such and AMAZING joy and thirst for God and he has blessed that time of hardship in so many ways.
ahh he's so amazing.
-brooke
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