05/16/18 NOW AND LATER
Thank You Lord for doing the impossible for me and others, spiritual and physical, eternal and temporal. Great is the Lord and greatly to be Praised.
(I hope your read the following comment, and especially the last passage of Scripture)
Unless the rapture takes place in my lifetime, many of my blessings will come to an end, either because of death or because God has another plan. The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, blessed be the Name of the Lord.
Sometimes the burden, the difficulty is relentless, is nearly overwhelming (and would be without His presence and the knowledge of His goodness).
Sometimes the deliverance comes, while other trials linger.
Sometimes relief and restoration comes, but then we still need Him for another round of trouble.
Sometimes we have to fight the battle all the days of our lives, but He never leaves us nor forsakes us.
He is always faithful.
He never fails.
He will give us victories along the way, and
He will give us the final victory.
Galatians 6:9
9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
2 Corinthians 4:7-18
7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
11 For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
13 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;
14 Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.
15 For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.
16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
