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Re: 2-1/2 years into a severe trial
Your words struck a chord in my heart Originalist.
I think the main issue at hand that you are dealing with is partly... why me? Why do I and my family have to go through all this suffering when others are just continuing to live life large?
Suffering is a mentality that Americans don't embrace well. Yet, suffering is the very school Christ had to go through in order to embrace victory at the cross.
Suffering, pain, sorrow, temptations, fears... all of these things come to us to show us what we are made of, and I believe God uses the "School of Suffering" to teach us more about His love, mercy and grace.
Look at the lives of the apostles.... suffering was a common chord played through their lives.
Don't look at this trial as a time to despair, but use it as a time to allow God to teach you all the things He longs for you to know, things that we can only learn in the "school of suffering."
YOU are not alone. You are chosen of God indeed, and instead of weeping, and crying bitter tears over what could have been, why not ask God to show you clearly the lesson He is teaching you through all of this, and indeed as someone else wrote... look at the great heroes of the Bible, each one of them went through the crucible before God could truly use them mightily.
I believe that is why God has YOU and your family in this place... it is for a time... and soon... there will come a time when you will understand, and be very thankful for this valley that you have walked through.
Keep the faith, trust God in all things, and lean not unto your own understanding.
I speak these words as indeed, the Lord has ministered these very same things to my husband and I too. We don't learn much in the good times... but our greatest knowledge about our precious Jesus has been in the darkest times of our lives.
And, of course, we will hold you and your family up in prayer.
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