Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
Observation: If struggle is a vessel that God uses to teach His children, I must be a brain trust by now......Yes, many of my struggles are 'self-inflicted", but God always gives me the grace to see me through. This verse in 2 Cor. is what I have come to believe is my life verse, as if God wrote it just for me. The truth is clear. Every struggle I go through is always used by God to help another. Which in turn builds my faith. My prayer is not that I would not struggle, but that my heart would always be turned to the 'what" God is doing in me, versus the 'why' would God allow this to happen to me.
Application: Very simply to be in constant observation of my surroundings and circumstances to see what God may be doing in my life, so that I can learn His ways and gain his direction. "For I know His ways are not my ways, and His thoughts are not my thoughts".
Prayer:
Father,
I am so glad that your mercies are new every single day. That your grace is sufficient for me, and that all things do work together for good, to those who love You and are called according to Your pupose. I praise You because you have removed the scales from my eyes so that I can see what You are doing around me that draws me toward knowing and loving You more. I thank you that in my walk, you have always given me an affection for the brokenhearted, the judged, the condemed, and the downtrodden. To always allow others the same grace that has been afforded me, and to not ridicule others regardless of where they are in their walk. I thank you that is was for freedom you have set us free, and not for the rules of man. Take me and mold me into a usefull servant so that I might be willing as in the words of Paul, " 1 Cor. 9:19For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
20And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;
21To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.
22To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
23And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.
24Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
25And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
26I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
27But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
In Jesus Name
Amen
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