December
WHEN YOU ARE PLAGUED by a persistent problem—one that goes
on and on—view it as a rich opportunity. An ongoing problem is like a
tutor who is always by your side. The learning possibilities are limited
only by your willingness to be teachable. In faith, thank Me for your
problem. Ask Me to open your eyes and your heart to all that I am
accomplishing through this difficulty. Once you have become grateful
for a problem, it loses its power to drag you down. On the contrary,
your thankful attitude will lift you up into heavenly places with Me. From
this perspective, your difficulty can be seen as a slight, temporary
distress that is producing for you a transcendent Glory never to
cease!
Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your
teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them. Whether
you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying,
“This is the way; walk in it.”
ISAIAH 30 : 20 – 21
For our light, momentary affliction (this slight distress of the passing hour) is
ever more and more abundantly preparing and producing and achieving for us
an everlasting weight of glory [beyond all measure, excessively surpassing all
comparisons and all calculations, a vast and transcendent glory and
blessedness never to cease!].
2 CORINTHIANS 4 : 17 (AMP)