Paul says troubles are light afflictions. We need to remember that in our daily lives. Here is an acrostic my Pastor shared with us this past Sunday.
T - Times to trust God!
R - Remember: I am not self sufficient (Psalm 100:3).
O - Opportunities will do things for you that nothing else can do. It makes you be more creative, and seek fresh solutions.
U - Unbiased: Trouble is an equal opportunity provider. Trouble rains on the just and unjust alike.
B - Blessings in disguise, trouble opens up doors that you do not usually go through in good times.
L - Lessons: Each lesson becomes your teacher if you learn from the lesson. Listen, be observant let the lesson teach you.
E - Everywhere: Trouble abounds everywhere...
S - Solvable - Every trouble that you go through has a solution. The question is, are you going to find it? Are you going to be open, and be available to God to give you the wisdom, and to be attentive to hear the solution from Him?
"But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you. For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God. For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal."
II Corinthians 4:7-11, 14-18
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