Have you
had your Joy Juice today? When we least
feel like drinking it, we need it most.
Remember the
old Louis Armstrong classic “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen”? That describes
how many of us feel from time to time! Tragedies
and trouble are no respecter of persons. Bad things happen to good people. Christians are not immune to difficulties.
The difference between a believer and a non-believer is that the believer knows
that God is walking with them through the tough times and that there is hope in
Him. A non-believer most often feels
hopeless.
Bible
scholar, Dr. Warren Wiersbe, explains:
“When trouble comes to
our lives, we can do one of three things: endure it, escape it, or enlist
it. If we only endure our trials, then
trials become our master, and we have a tendency to become hard and
bitter. If we try to escape our trials,
then we will probably miss the purposes God wants to achieve in our lives. But if we learn to enlist our trials, they will
become our servants instead of our masters and work for us; and God will work
all things together for our good and for His glory (Romans 8:28).”
When you feel as if “nobody
knows the trouble you’ve seen”….turn to Jesus and know that He not only knows,
He cares and is working to turn the bad into good, sadness into joy and
hopelessness into fulfilled promises.
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