ADVERSITY BREEDS UPLIFTMENT
No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.
Here’s my own story:
My late wife suddenly took ill and ended up in intensive care. We had to order a pace maker from U.K. and the insertion procedure was successful. But later, for some unexplained cause she went into coma and remained in that state for many months. I spent all I had and all the help I was given, still I had to borrow money to meet the mounting and unending hospital expenses. Eventually my late wife passed away, but ever before she fell ill, she had been praying for my salvation. When I couldn’t pay the money I borrowed, the lender took away the collateral – my treasured car. After I fully recovered from my grief, God gave me another wife, a caring and diligent child of God. Together we built our lives and those of our children up afresh and became servants of the living God. Now we are living happily in our brand new house, in bright sunshine after the cloud.
Below is an extract from the poem, 'IF' by Rudyard Kipling:
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same...or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, and stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings and risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, and lose, and start again at your beginnings and never breathe a word about your loss...
...And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
...Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
The story of Job in the bible teaches us that though adversity may come, holding tightly to our trust in God will not only see us through but will also lift us higher. The bible says, ‘In all this, Job did not sin nor charge God with wrong’. (Job 1:22). And at the end we read, ‘Now the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning...’ (Job 42:12).
If you endure the dark tunnel, you’ll reach the brightness at the end of it!
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