Opus 2024-251: The Glory of Hard Times

One of the great things about hard times or what we face now, the unknown, is that it gives us the opportunity to decide which way our hearts are going to go.

Are we going to give into despair?  Are we going to surrender to the defeatist attitude?

Or, are we going to continue to glorify our God and look to eternity?

We get to decide.  God is not going to change.  We don’t know how He’s going to work things out but we can decide whether we are going to live in despair or hope.

The choice may not change anything in our surrounding world, but it will change the way in which we interact with our environment.  One of the great truths of life is our attitude towards what is around us affects how that surrounding deals with us.  It’s a mystery.  It doesn’t make sense.  It does make a difference.  I think of the old story about two shoe salesmen who went to the South Seas island where the locals all went barefoot.  The first salesman wired back, “This is a hopeless situation. No one here where is shoes.”  His replacement got all excited and sent word back, “Send more shoes.  No one here has any.”

An old story, but an even older reality in our lives.

Live in hope if you know Jesus.

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