Don't fight it

Believer:
Upon facing difficult circumstances, put effort into hourly checking your heart and joyfully driving your will to act and think more like Christ.

In the end, this is God's will and intention for every circumstance: your sanctification. So don't fight it. Pain will be lessened if effort is put into conforming to the image of Christ.

1 Thessalonians 4:3
Philippians 2:12-13

"Whatever comes, we shall endure."

During this season of life...

...I'm learning.

Problem

If anyone reads this, you really dont know me. Let me tell you that I've truely got a lot of problems. I mean I am depraved. DEPRAVED. I see myself tinting everything with sin. The biggest problem I deal with is my ME-centeredness. I make everything about me. I am the chief of sinners.

Lord, I cry, would you save me from myself!

Suffer Well

Pastor Matt Chandler of The Village Church had a seizure on Thanksgiving 2009 and a brain tumor was found in his head.

Just like that.

Watch this video. What an example. When you suffer, suffer well, that all might know that only Christ satisfies!

Christ is the treasure, not good health or wealth.

Sufferings

http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/ConferenceMessages/ByDate/2237_How_Our_Suffering_Glorifies_the_Greatness_of_the_Grace_of_God/


check out that sermon.

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Things have happened and I had a feeling last night before I went to bed. I suppose it's the kind of feeling trees have when an axe is held to their trunk.

This is the kind of feeling that is produced when the safety net which was always depended on is threatened to be removed. Yet it's okay because: the Lord is with us, He are mighty to save.

I've been on some adventures, but this is more real then any of them.


GOD WILL LIFT UP YOUR HEAD

Give to the wind your fears.
Hope and be undismayed.
God hears your sighs and counts your tears.
God will lift up, God will lift up, lift up your head.

God will lift up your head.
God will lift up your head.
God will lift up your head.
God will lift up your head.

Leave to His sovereign sway.
To choose and to command.
Then shall we wandering on His way,
Know how wise and how strong.
How wise and how strong.

God will lift up your head.
How strong is his hand.
God will lift up your head.
How wise and how strong.
God will lift up your head.
How strong is his hand.
Lift up your head.

Through waves and clouds and storms, He gently clears the way.
Wait because in His time, so shall this night,
Soon end in joy, soon end in joy.
Soon end in joy, soon end in joy.

God will lift up your head.
God will lift up your head.
God will lift up your head.
God will lift up your head.