How does your life look like to be at this moment? Perhaps you are feeling like Jeremiah:
Many times, we look on our debt very heavy. It seems that the world is falling down on our heads:
At these moments, we stay mulling over our previous state and mourn, instead of being grateful to Jesus by His gift (today's day – Psalms 118.24).
But the main point is: what do you plan on to do? I hope that your reaction is different from the Israel:
We can’t overpower all circumstances, but we can take control of ourselves, of the way we react. The pith of our behavior consists on: whom we call in for help? To Jesus or to "pharaoh", with their “chariots and horses” (Psalms 20.7; 147.10)? We will hurt someone to get us free of the quandaries and predicaments or we will manage to surpass our difficulties helping other people with the solace that we receive of Jesus (2Corinthians 1.3-5)? Will we bank on the commandments of Jesus, or will we try to stave off the enemies by our own power, capacity, etc., trying to find our way around His Word? Can be sure that this solution only put off and aggravate our problems.
So, try to understanding what the will of the Lord is (Ephesians 5.16,17), put it across, live pursuant to it and have a magnificent week.
- “For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.” (Lamentations 4.6).
Many times, we look on our debt very heavy. It seems that the world is falling down on our heads:
- Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more rosy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire: their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaves to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick. They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for lack of the fruits of the field.” (Lamentations 4.7-9).
At these moments, we stay mulling over our previous state and mourn, instead of being grateful to Jesus by His gift (today's day – Psalms 118.24).
But the main point is: what do you plan on to do? I hope that your reaction is different from the Israel:
- The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.” (Lamentations 4.10).
We can’t overpower all circumstances, but we can take control of ourselves, of the way we react. The pith of our behavior consists on: whom we call in for help? To Jesus or to "pharaoh", with their “chariots and horses” (Psalms 20.7; 147.10)? We will hurt someone to get us free of the quandaries and predicaments or we will manage to surpass our difficulties helping other people with the solace that we receive of Jesus (2Corinthians 1.3-5)? Will we bank on the commandments of Jesus, or will we try to stave off the enemies by our own power, capacity, etc., trying to find our way around His Word? Can be sure that this solution only put off and aggravate our problems.
So, try to understanding what the will of the Lord is (Ephesians 5.16,17), put it across, live pursuant to it and have a magnificent week.
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