In Troubling Times Rejoice

For quite of an extensive amount of years now I have longed to develop a serious inquisition concerning this physical disorder. This inconvenient element, this confused emotion, this transitive verb which had been photographed in my mind called trouble.

For quite a while now I’ve been wondering and pondering why is it that trouble seems to heighten and lift its ugly heads in my life so much. I must confess that at the pinnacle, the apex and the zenith the combination of the crowning point of my thoughts lately has been a puzzling question, that why is it in this modern day, that I’m still filled, bombarded, overwhelmed and saturated with what seems to always look like a crisis, and troubles are on every hand.

I have often wondered why is it that the grey clouds of anguish and torment, agony and suffering continue hoover, linger, and loiter in the area of my life where I’ve decided rest my mind in solidarity which causes my life to be effective with the rain falls of disappointment, worries and anxieties.

To be honest I have often baptized my thoughts in curiosity of how wonderful it would be, if my present existence never made any contact or connection, with any pain, setback, sorrow, suffering or disappointments.

I’m telling you that I have often wonder, as some of you have, could there ever be a time in my life that I could enjoy some trouble free time, a life of trouble exemption, a problem free life, a life of no crisis that are working against me. I often fantasize serenity and tranquility and little quietude and quietness, just a time of just some peace in the valley.

But, I must admit that when I finally came back to myself, back to common reality. Reality reminded me that life on this planted will not allow me to submit or to commit to such a utopia, a paradise or dreamland. Reality Shouted WAKE UP.

Reality gave me some insight, reality gave me a rude awaiting and a shaking, as Job said, “that man that is born of a woman is of a few days, and those days are filled with trouble.

So I don’t know but it just seems to look like that this human man, and mankind is just a magnet for drawing troubles and problems. So now being conscience of this infallible fact, the question that hangs in front of my mind is what now shall we do? When the rain falls of trouble comes down upon me, what now should I do? When I am pressed on every side, persecuted, struck down, and forsaken, I asked the question what then. What should my behavior pattern be?

Should I make the attempt to run flee and try to escape out of desperation? Should we become a fugitive from trouble? Or should we just give up, give in and tap-out.

I’ve got news for you New Galilean, I’m here to tell you my brothers and sister that we should never negate Psalms 34:19 which say’s Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the LORD delivers him out of them all.

My brothers and my sister we should never forget about John 16:33 which say, “In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”

We should never overlook Acts 14:22 which says, we must go through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God.

Please don’t forget about 2nd Timothy 3:12, which teach us all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer some persecution.

And whatever you do don’t discard John 15:20 that tell us “Remember the word that I said to you, 'that a servant is not greater than his master.' And if they persecuted me, they will also persecute you.

So I say to you my sisters and brothers of destiny and to the body of Christ. We must not ever get sidetracked by the certainly of trouble. We should not ever get to the point where we as Christians think that we are exempt for trouble.

And I can be the first to admit that I don’t like trouble, but trouble seems to like me. My flesh rejects trouble, but my spirit accepts it. The reason that my spirit accepts it is because my spirit belongs to God and God knowns that trouble will come to break me, so that it can make it.

Let me see if I can make it plain I want to put trouble under what I call a microscopic scriptural evaluation. Let’s see if we can get some clarity about trouble.

First of all how do we deal with this multiplicity of the events of trouble because it seems that through the years:

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