Have you ever looked at you life and you circumstances and bemoaned how horrible it is? When you think you have it bad just look around. The reality is, there is always someone, somewhere in situations that make ours look miniscule. Thats not to say that our battle is not significant it just helps with keeping the perspective. Listen to what Paul endured:
2 Corinthians 11:23-27
"...more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death. Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one. Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I was adrift at sea; on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers; in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure."
So I guess my life is coasting along pretty smoothly. I also know that when the proverbial wheel runs off in my life; and I know it will; God is able to carry me through!
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