As a child, I spent every Saturday morning watching cartoons. Those cartoons were simpler than those of today, and one of the funniest pictures I can recall is the piano being dropped on the head of someone in the cartoon. Though the piano weighed a ton and dropped many floors, the recipient survived most of the time, flattened to the ground, with little birdies flying around their head. Though I never have had a piano fall on my head, or any other musical instrument, come to think of it, I have had the feeling that at any moment that is exactly what is about to happen! Life can be difficult, especially as a Christian. Many people expect a life of ease when they decide to walk away from the world and walk with Jesus. Somehow, we forget that the devil is in control of this world!
If God never will let go of us, how can the devil possibly win in his battle against us? He can’t have us for eternity, but he certainly can ruin our testimonies! That is his greatest goal, once you come to the Lord. Don’t forget, if you decided to follow Jesus, you left the devil’s team! That angers the team captain, who can’t have you back. He tries to make you fail so you can’t bat clean up for your team! We know that we are going to be attacked. Here are some quotes that might help you deal with those attacks:
• “It is not a question of God allowing or not allowing things to happen. It is part of living. Some things we do to ourselves, other things we do to each other. Our Father knows about every bird which falls to the ground, but He does not always prevent it from falling. What are we to learn from this? That our response to what happens is more important than what happens. Here is a mystery: one man’s experience drives him to curse God, while another man’s identical experience drives him to bless God. Your response to what happens is more important than what happens.” -- Chip Brogden
• “We all know people who have been made much meaner and more irritable and more intolerable to live with by suffering: it is not right to say that all suffering perfects. It only perfects one type of person ... the one who accepts the call of God in Christ Jesus.” -- Oswald Chambers
• “Our problems are opportunities to discover God’s solutions.” -- Unknown
• “God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight!” -- Reggie White
• “God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” -- CS Lewis
• “We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.” -- Charles C. West
• 22 strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying, “We must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God.” Acts 14:22
Know that the trials are coming! Respond the way the Lord would have you respond! If you truly believe His promises, you can walk through the greatest difficulty with joy and peace.
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