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It won’t always seem true, but feelings can be fickle. It’s not that they are bad, or that you shouldn’t have them, but feelings oftentimes can’t be trusted. And there is no inspiration more effective or deceptive, than trouble, when we consider its effect on emotions. A good o’fashioned trial, complete with attacks from every direction, pressing in on every side, is all the fuel you need to lose confidence in God, to let your feelings run amuck, and to allow your emotions to rule the day.
Weeping and sorrow may last through the night, but joy comes in the morning. That is precisely why God’s heart is for you to hold tight to His promises. It looks bad; don’t worry. You’re in danger; don’t fear. There is no way out; don’t panic. It’s too much to bear; don’t lose hope. The burden is too heavy; don’t cave. The doors keep slamming in your face; don’t give up. The temptation is too great; don’t surrender. The answer is nowhere to be found; don’t stop asking. The solution is too confusing; God is your mathematician. What to do is a complete mystery; God is your spiritual detective. And now, make it really personal!
I’m too sick to be well; God is my healer. The price is too high and I can’t cover the cost; God will reconcile my accounts. I’m too dirty to ever be clean; the Lord of all will exchange my garments for His. My sins are too many, too often, too big, and too ugly; God says to me, “Do over!” The circumstances of my life are beyond complicated; I am at the end of myself, the limit of my understanding. It all feels like an enigma wrapped in a conundrum. Excellent, that is precisely where God wants me!
Nothing that exists in the entirety of creation can be, if the God over all of creation had not allowed it to be. He is sovereign over your suffering and your solution! No weapon formed against you shall prosper; every enemy that rises against you God will defeat. But there is one “not so subtle nuance” that might be your greatest victory in times of trouble. You are more than a conqueror in Christ Jesus. God does not just defeat your enemies—He obliterates them, as if to spray a firehose at a matchstick!
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