I receive an email each day with a devotional from "Joni and Friends", which is a ministry we have become a part of and dearly love. This paragraph below is from this morning's email. Pretty appropriate, I would say...
"Our souls usually don't thrive during good times. Our hearts grow complacent, our need of God becomes less urgent, our hope of heaven dims and our prayer life often dries up. We may be planted in a beautiful setting with our needs met and every resource at our fingertips, but our soul shrivels. It seems we need an occasional blast of storm or fiery trial, if our faith is to mature."
I was just saying to someone yesterday that I had heard a comment that one of the hardest prayers to pray is, "Whatever it takes, Lord, for You to be glorified in my life. Whatever it takes." I know that so many have situations much more difficult than mine on a daily basis...whatever it is, HE will take and use it to His own glory and we will be the better for it. Bitterness is not an option - it is destructive in every way. He longs to draw us close, and teach us more than we ever dreamed. The lessons are often hard...but those are the ones we learn the best. While I have my tears, frustrations, etc., I long to have a teachable heart to understand Him better and what this whole ordeal means in my life as His.
God bless you each and every one.
Andi
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