For our light and temporary affliction is producing for us an eternal glory that far outweighs our troubles. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
As days go by, through daily life events, I have come to realize that God uses suffering, struggle, lack, sickness, pain, weakness not to harm us but to bring us closer to Him. Most people focus on blaming God and fail to see the Jesus in the struggle, the Jesus in the storm, the Jesus just like Peter telling us, " Walk, have faith". The bible says that seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things will be added unto you. A person who is saved thus becomes like a bird, who has to know all that is above that is the spirit world before he can posses what is beneath.
God wants us to know that even in difficult times He will always bring us through and that if we seek Him with all our might and strength, He will always bring us safely. There is a bible verse that says the presence of God is not the absence of trouble or lack or the absence of a storm, but how we behave when in the middle of a storm. When we have faith that suffering is just temporary and Jesus will bring us through the storm, then we will walk confident believing that indeed Jesus is God.,
It is one thing to endure suffering with Jesus and it is the other thing to forget Him because of the suffering. Isaih 43:2 says that When you go through deep waters, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown. When you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be burned up; the flames will not consume you.
I see Jesus in my suffering everyday and I know that it is just a season and through this season it is important to remember the miracles that brought me through the valleys and the deep waters. The most important thing is to set my eyes upon Jesus, because even in suffering He transforms my thoughts and leads my actions. Romans 12:2 says that,
For God to be able to transform our thoughts and lead our actions we must not conform to the standards of these world but then we must be transformed by the renewing of our mind and we will know that the will of God for us is good, pleasing and perfect.
The main objective for God is to change us both inside out, know His will for our life and have the peace of God through the renewal of our minds.
God wants us to be like Him and we should desist from things that keep us away from God. The presence of God in our life is very important than anything in the world and if you realise that there is something that keeps you away from Him then you should leave it.
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