because I think that we all need to be reminded of this.

The past few years and literally the past few months especially have been a real challenge for me. I do believe Romans 8:28, and can mentally understand that God loves me and is working my good...

but it really does not feel like it sometimes when you are in the middle of the fire. See... our hearts are deceptive and our feelings will deceive us if we are not careful. That is why the "knowledge of the truth" keeps us from being deceived.

God does love us... He loves me! What I am going through is not His fault because He is cruel... but there are some problems with this world and also with me personally. God is using these things through to make me better... to perfect me and do good to and through me. I love Him and I trust Him!

Jesus has literally taken my sin for me and died in my place... I love Him back and will go through this with Him and live for Him.

2 Timothy 2:12 (KJV) 12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:

2 Corinthians 12:10 (KJV)
10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.


He loves me enough that He gave of Himself... the best of God to save me and you! He loves us! He is working a work in us and we have not arrived yet. But it hurts sometimes being molded by the Potter into a vessel of honor that can be truly used of God. Being broken again... and reshaped and then put in the fire... it is bringing a great good, but it hurts when the impurities and the flaws are being taken out of us. He loves us, and He is working the best in us and gave His best to bring it through us and for us!


James






FireStorm

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Philippians 3:8-10 " 8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things [but] loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them [but] dung, that I may win Christ, 9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: 10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;


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