God makes me feel sooooo loved! I’ve been going on and on and on about a verse I read on my son’s Joshie’s iPad at a friend’s house on Saturday:
“A person might have to suffer EVEN WHEN IT IS UNFAIR, but if he thinks of God and stands the pain, God is pleased.” – 1 Peter 2:19
I loved it immediately and jumped up to have my friend read it after our discussion from the week before when she said something like we shouldn’t have to live with pain and sorrow. This verse confirmed my belief, and I showed her thinking this was God’s response to her statement.
I loved the verse so much, I shared it on a post the next day. After sharing, my daughter, Julie, calls me upset, saying something we’ve asked of her was unfair. I got her to read the verse, and I wrote about it AGAIN the next day.
Then, the day after, I told my friend how I’m at her house and I always feel God show up there. Like I KNEW that was a message from Him to me through that verse. Can you believe, my phone needed charging, and I opened directly to this in an appointment with God first thing this morning, in one of my fav meditation books, Yes Father:
“Suffering is in a real sense our vocation. “This is thankworthy if, for conscience towards God, a man endures sorrows, suffering wrongfully…But if doing well you suffer patiently, this is thankworthy before God. (1 Peter 2:19)
There was no way this was just some regular coincidence! It was God revealing His invisible Presence with me, going as far as confirming that this verse was a message from Him to me after I went on with my friend that God speaks to me clearly at her house. I felt Him in my spirit the way I was so excited reading this verse.
I’m reminded of Pastor Dan’s Hall’s statement about why God allowed him to be paralyzed from the neck down. He explained that life is how you respond to bad things that happen to us. He says he prays that Christ (God) be exalted (glorified) by him in his wheelchair.
And honestly, guys, that’s where I am. That 2020 was a dark year, but I hope I showed a lot of people (including myself) that we will have dark times, but God will be with us every little step of the way AS WE JOYFULLY TAKE ON HARD THINGS FOR HIS GLORY!!! Wink! Wink!
