It's Not an Easy Road

"Life's trials are not easy.  But in God's Will, each has a purpose."  Warren Wiersbe

Don't think for a minute that Christianity is a weak-man's-crutch.

Don't let anyone tell you that when you get saved, your life becomes a walk in the park, and everything will be a bed of roses and hunky-dory.

Just ask Job-

Just ask the Apostle Paul-

Just ask Jesus.

Sometimes God allows His children to walk through the fire.  (Daniel 3:24-25)

There will be times in your Christian life that you will suffer persecution, trials and troubles that take on many forms.  Discouragement, loneliness, depression, even illness.

But as a child of God, we get to choose how we will walk through the fire:

    Kicking and screaming and feeling sorry for yourself?  Asking God, 'Why Me?'

    Or will you trust God and allow whatever it is that you are going through bring honor and Glory to God?

Jesus answered, "Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be manifest in Him." Words of Jesus, John 9:3

My husband and I have had the privilege of knowing and being friends with a man for 34 years.  This man's testimony has never wavered.  No matter what the Lord has allowed in his life, He just keeps on praising God.  Right now, he is walking through the fire, but he knows he is not alone.  Already he is trusting and praising God!

"No matter what our circumstances, we can find a reason to be thankful."  David Jeremiah

As I was speaking with our friend on Christmas Day, this is what he told me, "We don't need to understand, we just need to hold His hand."  Sam Kennedy

No, the Christian walk is not an easy road, but when we realize we are not walking alone, and when we realize that God gives us His courage, His strength, and His peace, we can walk this road to bring honor and Glory to the One Who deserves it most:  Christ!

    But that's just me!

"These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace.  In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world."

Words of Jesus, John 16:33

"Peace is not the absence of trouble, but the presence of Christ."  Anonymous