Dealing with Difficulty ... and other writings. (Page 3)

Dealing with Difficulties

The Bible is filled with promises of God’s faithfulness. “Lo, I am with you, even to the end of the age."

“Weeping endures for the night, but joy comes in the morning.”

“Now you know that no chastening seems good for the moment, but painful, but, we know that in due season we shall reap – IF WE DO NOT FAINT!”

The apostle Paul had his “thorn in the flesh,” but was the man God used to give the world a major portion of “sacred writ,” called the Bible.

One evangelist had such terrible vision, that, he had to hold his sermon up to his eyes, as he preached his immortal sermon, “Sinners In The Hand of An Angry God,” but God used that sermon to move multitudes.

“Behold, the ear of the Lord is not heavy so that He cannot hear; neither is His arm shortened that it cannot save.”

Jesus said, “Let not your heart be troubled, you believe in God, believe also in me …”

Fear was a part of most every life, so angels were forever saying to God’s people, “Fear not.”

We must have faith that God is greater than any problem we face. It is necessary to always know that God can, but may not, heal us of every malady we face. He could, though He often does not, keep the devil from attacking us. He has the power to protect us, as if we wer in a divinely created care-free, trouble-free, and anxiety-proofed, box. God often allows us to “walk through the valley of the shadow of death,” however, even though it is not necessarily a pleasant experience.

What He assures us, thankfully, is, He will walk with us through the valley, lead us beside still waters, prepare a table for us in the presence of our enemies, and anoint our head with oil; and, that, goodness and mercy would follow us “all the days of our life.”

Having made such a wonderful promise, we are still to be mindful that, “without faith, it is impossible to please God.” We often have to do as King David did, “encour- age ourselves in the Lord;” accept the fact that pain is a part of life, and there will be times when God will give us miraculous, and immediate, deliverance. Those times are wonderful, but not guaranteed. No matter which way the winds blow in our life, however, GOD IS LOVE! He is mindful of our weaknesses. He knows our frame.