In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.
1 Peter 1:6-7
During one of my
darkest times, I latched on to something that Barbara Johnson, a noted
Christian author and speaker said in her book, Where Does A Mother Go to
Resign. She said, rather tongue-in-cheek I suspect, that her favorite Bible
verse is, “and it came to pass”. . . . I
thought about this and decided she was right! It all does come to pass: our
troubles and our trials. They either end
and pass by here on earth, or we go to our Heavenly Home and they definitely end
and pass by in that case!
In the ‘80’s we
were starting a new family business and putting our two boys through
college. Interest rates were up around
22% which was back-breaking to young entrepreneurs. Every time we had tuition due, or bills accumulated
that absolutely had to be paid, we usually had no idea how we were going to do
it. But we kept plugging along, tithing
our little income and somehow, in some way, money became available for our
needs. Definitely not our wants, but our most basic needs. The lessons learned
then help me not worry about all that is going on now in our country.
In the 90’s our
oldest son died with a horrible disease. I questioned God, and shouted at him, and got very angry with him, but
it “came to pass.” Now I can look back
in gratitude and absolute certainty that God was with me then, is with me now,
and will always be with me.
Thank you Lord Jesus for my past and your lessons learned from it!
Pat
Eppler
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