Blessings

Life has challenges.

Big and small challenges.

Challenges that we can overcome..

with the right attitude

 

 

This week has been a tough week.

John found out that he has been laid off for the month of December.

With Christmas being around the corner,

it was a big pill to swallow... BUT

 

 

God has fulfilled His promise to take care of us.

Once people found out, we had:

 

1. several names of different people to call that would have work for John

2.  offers to pay for gas for our planned trip to Chilliwack

3. offers to buy Christmas presents for our girls so that it would still be special

4. and many listening ears as I vented my .. what can I call it... doubts, I

would say. 

 

 

A wonderful and lovely, amazing to say the least, neighbour lady from church, gave me an hour of her time this morning, lending an ear, and giving me advice.  What was her advice? Stay close to God!  Get a devotion, and take the time EVERY day to talk to HIM.  She gave me a devotion that I want to share with you, as it totally applied to what we had talked about!

 

Having the Right Attitude

 

Romans 8: 28-39

 

vs. 31 "If God is for us, who can be against us?"

 

We are seeing that when we are engulfed in darkness, that is the time to light the flickering torch of faith and explore the treasures that are hidden there.  The very first thing we need to understand when we are surrounded by deep darkness is that we are not going to be exempt from the difficult periods of life just because we are Christians.  If we react to dark experiences by saying, ' I'm a Christian, why is this happening to me?' then this will hinder us from finding the treasures that lie all around.  Richard Baxter wrote concerning the Great Plague: 'At first so few of the religious people were taken away that they began to get puffed up and boast of the great differences which God did make.  But quickly after that, they all fell alike.'

 

There is little we can do to stop darkness descending, but there is a lot we can do to discover its hidden treasures.  So whenever you find yourself in a place of darkness, hold fast to the idea that what matters is not so much what is happening to you as the meaning that you can discover in it.  Sorrows, griefs, losses, disappointments, frustrations, sickness, failures- these can be dark and difficult experiences.  They can, however, be times of spiritual growth and development, providing we stand up to them with the right attitude.  And the right attitude is this- God will allow nothing to come into my life unless it can be used.

 

If you say to yourself, 'This should not have happened to me because I am a child of God,' then your attitude will prevent you from discovering the treasures that are all around. When you realise that you can use everything, then you need not be afraid of anything.

 

Hope this has blessed you.