Day 48: Trouble Knows No Bounds

2 Corinthians 5, 6, 7

Have you ever felt that you just couldn’t take whatever life was dishing out to you?  Have you ever felt that you are being pushed to your limit and you might fall apart from the pressure?  Do you ever curse your sorrows and troubles?  Well, you shouldn’t.  In fact, you should rejoice in them and commend others in them.

⁴Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships and distresses; ⁵in beatings, imprisonments and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger; ⁶in purity, understanding, patience and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love; ⁷in truthful speech and in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left; ⁸through glory and dishonor, bad report and good report; genuine, yet regarded as impostors; ⁹known, yet regarded as unknown; dying, and yet we live on; beaten, and yet not killed; ¹⁰sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything. 2 Corinthians 6:4-10

Why?  I can honestly believe that it is these challenging life moments, that makes us turn to God.  When we come to a breaking point, we are faced with no other alternative but to turn to God and submit what frail body is left and earnestly beg for forgiveness – we repent.

Dear Lord, let us not come to the repenting of our sins, merely because we feel that we can’t do it alone.  Strike in my own heart, reliance on your promise of salvation.  Make me unashamedly turn to you for everything.  Thank you for allowing me to trust and love You.  In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.