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 DIFFICULTIES

Difficulties don't determine who we are, they actually reveal who we are. The same heat that will melt butter will make mud rock-hard. You find out what's inside a tube when it is squeezed.

The question is whether your heart will become soft when God reveals His Word to you in an area He want to redeem and restore, or will it become resistant and hardened?

Will you believe God and receive His Word? Will you accept that He knows what will make your life whole? Will you surrender whatever He is asking for, whatever He has put His finger on trusting that what He commands He also provides the Power of the Holy Spirit to help your obedience?

Will the difficulties and struggles in life (and everyone has them; you are not the exception) turn you to the only source of Life and Peace or will you rely on the world's "solutions?"

Matthew 15:8-9
‘"These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship is a farce, for they teach man-made ideas as commands from God."

Honest worship, reliance on and faith in God do not change simply because things in your life experience are less than optimum. Manmade ideas will never save, rescue, redeem or restore what is broken to wholeness or what is dead back to life.

Romans 8:35-37
"Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? (As the Scriptures say, “For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.” No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us."

When living in this broken world puts the squeeze on you, whatever comes out, be honest with God in confession, surrender it to Him, and trust Him. He knew it was there already; He's not surprised. Remember, He alone can save and restore. Let Him have it asking the Holy Spirit to make your heart soft and receptive.

Let God use everything He will to reveal and heal. Trust His love.

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