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Topic:
How Jesus Relates To Our Adversity
Adversity Disappears In His Light: In spite of your problems, issues,
disability, illness, sickness, disease, or the influence the darkness
has upon you, there is no power greater than the light of God. Because
God is the light, you can defeat the darkness by bringing in the Light
of Christ. The darkness is a part of your earthly life. However, the
darkness is only temporary for those of us who have accepted Christ.
Since Christ is eternal, you can stand in the presence of God's Light
and Love in Christ now and forevermore. Your temporary darkness will be
made into nothing in the light and love of God as you stand with Him for
eternity in Heaven.
Christ Touches Us: In Old Testament times people who were disabled,
ill, sick, or diseased were banned from the temple where God lived. In
striking contrast, when Jesus came into the world He did not reject us
or banish us. Instead of rejecting us or banishing us, Jesus put His
hands upon us and healed us.
Christ Is Present: Jesus is present in our life to help us deal with
the adversity, not necessarily to make the adversity go away. On the
surface, there does appear to be unfairness about adversity for people
of faith. Certainly, if we look at adversity from the standpoint of the
world, people of faith should get an easier life because people of faith
believe in God. From the standpoint of the world, believers in God
should receive protection from God because of their faith, at least more
protection than non-believers. However, our mission on earth is to
glorify God in all ways, at all times, and in all circumstances. Our
mission on earth is to glorify God in the dark times as well as in the
good times. As twisted as the logic may appear to be, we are to use
every adversity, someway, somehow, to glorify God. It is when we glorify
God as a result of the darkness in our life that the darkness is most
surely defeated. To find the power to do our glorification work, Christ
is present in our heart every hour.
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These words were posted at one of Shepherd's Care Ministries Sites
called Wisdom Moment. This site is located at:
http://www.findthepower.com/wisdomminute
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