Heavy? When Life Seems So Heavy?

VI. SOME TIMES ALL WE CAN DO IS SING? HOW CAN WE SING IN A WEARY LAND?

WELL, WE MUST SEE BEYOND HERE! WE MUST SEE BEYOND THIS TRIAL.

Sure life is heavy, and the older I get it seems much more heavy to me...

We hurt for us? We hurt for others that have made poor choices? We hurt as we see the

heaviness of this old world pressing the ones that we love? We suffer and can’t seem to

get a grip on the bigger picture.

We can’t be exempt from the heaviness, that is life. But God knew that this heaviness would try to dim our lights. The bigger picture cannot be distorted by heaviness. Not if we see...

VII. WHAT ARE YOU WEARING?

Isaiah 61:3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, THAT HE MAY BE GLORIFIED.

VIII. CAN I REALLY SEE? WHAT CAN I REALLY SEE?

12/1/03 I preached a dear friend’s funeral, it was very hard for me. Joe Arnette had been my friend

22 years. He was one of the most faithful church members I have ever pastored. I had been his pastor for

8 1/2 years, 1270 sermons. Joe watched my boys grow from diapers to men.

I was so honored to be called to return to preach Joe’s funeral.

I had written something in the front of my old Bible on 3/10/94. Here is what I wrote:

Joe Arnette, age 82, told me in Louisville, Ky. on 3/10/94,

"MY EYE SIGHT MAY BE GROWING DIMMER, BUT I AM SEEING

CLEARER EVERYDAY."

At Joe’s funeral, his son Joe Jack opened thanking all for coming and remembered his Dad.

Joe Jack said a light has gone out, my thought was PICKING UP THE TORCH THAT JOE

HAD LAID DOWN. We can’t let the light go out, we must find hands and place the HOPE and

LIGHT we know into their hands. I must be a human agent of revival no matter how I feel, or what I see.

IX. OUR PURPOSE OR HIS?

I am asking God to remember you in your heaviness, but God is asking you to KEEP PRAISING HIS HOLY NAME! WEAR THAT GARMENT OF PRAISE ... see the BIG picture of

Romans 8:28 And WE KNOW that all things work together to them that LOVE the Lord, the called according to His Purpose.

A heavy axe with a sharp edge can do great work. It is not if the axe is heavy, it is if it is sharp or

dull. A heavy dull axe can not do much. God uses our heaviness with Your sharpness.

If peace is gone seems every heart is heavy?

We are not designed to carry heaviness, are we?

1 Peter 5: 7 CASTING ALL YOUR CARE UPON HIM, FOR HE CARETH FOR YOU!

Courage does not always ROAR! Sometimes real courage finds a quiet place, and rest, and listens for the quiet voice at the ending of the day, and purpose within the heart, "I WILL TRY AGAIN TOMORROW!"

We are promised --- JOY COMES IN THE MORNING...

We can, we can make it, we can go on, we can come through this,

THIS TOO SHALL PASS...

We are candles, and we give ourselves to the light. His Presence we seek!

His voice we listen for! May others see Jesus in our eyes!

May we never lose focus of the main thing!

I love you, I pray for you! Good comes out of bad! In God we trust!

His servant, Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com

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