JMD Devotional 192 Psalm 71:19-21 Uncommon Denominator
Your righteousness also, O God, is very high [reaching to the heavens], You Who have done great things; O God, who is like You, or who is Your equal? You Who have shown us [all] troubles great and sore will quicken us again and will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.
Increase my greatness (my honor) and turn and comfort me.
Job 5: 6,7 (NIV) For hardship does not spring from the soil, nor does trouble sprout from the ground. Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
We fret about trouble, we avoid it at all costs, but no matter how far we steer clear of it, trouble intersects our path. It is God-ordained; though not to discourage us but to make us great! What great man has risen to prominence without suffering agonizing hardship? God knows the metallurgy of the soul---trust Him through even this. We all go through ordeals; (that is the common denominator); but letting suffering perfect one’s character, that is an uncommon prize.
Dear God,
I am like the horse missing a shoe that runs at the sight of the blacksmith! The hot coals scare me; I cannot see what You are doing when you are filing and hammering on my hooves; so I panic. Please forgive this dumb beast for making it so difficult for You to help me run better. Thank You for the mysterious ways in which You bless me.
Amen
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Increase my greatness (my honor) and turn and comfort me.
Job 5: 6,7 (NIV) For hardship does not spring from the soil, nor does trouble sprout from the ground. Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
We fret about trouble, we avoid it at all costs, but no matter how far we steer clear of it, trouble intersects our path. It is God-ordained; though not to discourage us but to make us great! What great man has risen to prominence without suffering agonizing hardship? God knows the metallurgy of the soul---trust Him through even this. We all go through ordeals; (that is the common denominator); but letting suffering perfect one’s character, that is an uncommon prize.
Dear God,
I am like the horse missing a shoe that runs at the sight of the blacksmith! The hot coals scare me; I cannot see what You are doing when you are filing and hammering on my hooves; so I panic. Please forgive this dumb beast for making it so difficult for You to help me run better. Thank You for the mysterious ways in which You bless me.
Amen
All (but*) quotes are from The Amplified Bible, published by
the Lockman Foundation. (AMP)
Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation
*New International Version (NIV)
Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society
**Scripture taken from The Message. Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group. (Eugene Peterson's easy-to-read, contemporary Scripture translation)
If you know of someone who would like to subscribe to
my daily devotional, please forward.
jamesdinsmore_32907@yahoo.com
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http://jamesezadventures.blogspot.com/
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