GOD HAS MORE!
Do you believe that? I was listening to Pastor Britt Merrick on the radio tonight as I drove home from church. He was speaking about his 6 year old daughter who is suffering from cancer. The words he said that stuck with me were: ”Fruit comes from adversity”.
His point was when we have gone through the darkness of despair so thick that you can’t see…..and come out the other side realizing that God never left you, you emerge stronger, wiser, and brimming with faith that God is all in all.
Have you gone through pain, sorrow, suffering, sickness? Have you seen God come through in the end? I know that without the deepest sorrow I have encountered, I would not know God’s love in such a deep way. The adversity has produced wisdom, faith, endurance, and a drive to keep on going even when things are drop down, give up, hopeless.
Maybe you are going through a huge inferno of strife right now? Do you feel alone? sorrow? sadness? pain? fear?
The Bible says “Do not fear for I am with you”. I know you’ve heard it, I know you’ve read it, but stop for a second, and let it soak in…….let it seep all the way down to the most doubtful part of your heart. You know the place…..it’s where you have accepted that those most painful things will never stop, that the sin will always fester, that the guilt will always breed more and more guilt, the shame will embed itself into your soul, until you are so paralyzed that you are rendered useless.
Do not fear because God has AMAZING things for you. I mean it! Had God not rescued me from my own place of sorrow, sin and despair, I would still be wallowing in hopelessness.
God has MORE! SO MUCH MORE!!
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