That’s the thing about God; oftentimes, He places mountains in our path to teach us grit, endurance, and determination. not because He’s picking on us but because He’s preparing us for His purpose—a purpose that far exceeds our greatest aspiration.
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Sometimes It Takes Affliction
When do we think, “Good to me” when we suffer? Affliction is not pleasant. It hurts, it goes against the grain, and it runs contrary to the philosophy of health, wealth, and happiness. That’s where our thoughts, our understanding, and sometimes our will struggle. Because, while God is focusing on eternity, we’re still stuck on the here and now.
A Season of Transformation
Yet God had a plan and a purpose. He had led Moses to a place where he could work on taking Egypt out of Moses: his learning, his mindset, his ways. God was stripping him down to his primal identity. In the commonplace of his daily existence, in the ordinariness of life, in the silence of the desert, Moses shed his pride, his reactive anger, and his white-knight syndrome. He became the servant God needed to lead His people out of bondage.
God of the Good Times, God of the Bad Times
“I am the LORD, and there is no other. I create the light and make the darkness. I send good times and bad times. I, the LORD, am the one who does these things.” Isaiah 45:6-7 (NLT) Merriam-Webster defines the word ‘bad’ as disagreeable, unpleasant, objectionable, or unwelcome. While bad times typically connote something unpleasant, …
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