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 CRISIS...BITTER OR BETTER

A real crisis in your life will either make you bitter or better. The determining factor is whether in the midst of the crisis you either move toward the Lord God or away from Him.

2 Corinthians 4:14, 16-18 "We know that God, who raised the Lord Jesus, will also raise us with Jesus and present us to Himself together with you. That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day. For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! So, we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever."

In crisis, and at all times as well, we resist becoming bitter when we fix our eyes on the Lord Jesus. We do not rely on what we think, feel or see because we are still in the process of being renewed daily from the inside out by the Holy Spirit. 

In the midst of crisis, the world is driven by obsession with externals, what is seen and how it's interpreted by finite insight, with a broken moral compass and the "self". The world thinks it all depends on them and that increases the impact of any crisis. But in a crisis, when the surface of what seems "loss" is joined with the deep things of God, His absolute commitment to finish in us what He began when He first made us His own, we find we are made strong with a strength not manufactured by us, but by God.

If you trust in the Lord with all your heart and don't rely on your own understanding, His gift of hope and strength will rise up, and help will come from the most surprising places. You will find that when you go through crisis by turning toward the Lord, believing Him, you will find His presence very, very real. How or when, we can't exactly say. but I can exactly say that He will help.

We belong to Him and God never forgets nor abandons His own. He will always care for you as the Good Shepherd He is. In crisis, remember WHOSE you are.

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