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It is often said that hindsight is 20/20. This year of 2020 will soon become hindsight. The challenges it brought me would’ve been easier, sooner, if I’d remembered this one thing more often:
Nothing compares to God’s glory. All the most gorgeous sunrises and sunsets, wildlife, breathtaking mountains and canyons, newborn babies—none of these are even the tiniest hint of God’s beauty. The sounds of the loudest thunder, the roar of a real lion, deafening crescendoes of giant waves and waterfalls—none of these are the faintest whispers of His powerful voice.
His Word gives me many promises about the reasons I can rejoice in all circumstances, no matter what. Two of my favorites are Romans 8:18 and 2 Corinthians 4:17. Both were written by a man who suffered more often and in more severe ways than I ever have. Both speak of the comparison of my earthly troubles (or afflictions) to the eternal glory awaiting me.
When I look backwards a year, or a decade or more, I can already see the proof of this truth. The worst dark pits of my life have resulted, already, in the greatest good. If I hadn’t fallen, or sometimes been pushed, into dark caves of heart pain and fear, how would I have learned how real, very present, and intimate Jesus is?
He met me there with comforts and counseling. He did it by way of His closer-than-my-breath powerful Holy Spirit—the same One who raised Him from the dead. He has used other people’s offenses, and my own offenses against Him and others, to change my heart and increase my compassion. He is continuing to heal my heart and mind, day by day.
When the Bible tells me my earthly challenges are far, far exceeded by the glory awaiting me, I know it is true, because I’ve gotten to know the One I’m believing. One touch from Him can create a new universe in my heart and mind. From forty years experience with Him, I know His glory does dwarf the troubles. It’s like comparing a flea to the whole Cosmos. Or a piece of lint to all the known galaxies and any yet-to-be-discovered ones.
All the troubles have produced in me and for me “an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.” Please let Jesus love on you. Open His Word and call out His name. He promises if we call to Him, He will tell us great and mighty things we do not know. Let me know what He whispers to you.
The Flea and the Cosmos
11/19/2020 10:46:00 PM by: Cathy Everitt
Who’s Driving Me?
11/12/2020 10:13:00 AM by: Cathy Everitt
Safe and Sound
6/24/2020 1:40:00 PM by: Cathy Everitt
Patience
2/27/2020 2:07:00 PM by: Cathy Everitt
Holiday Loneliness?
12/30/2019 9:10:00 AM by: Cathy Everitt
Haunted? What a Shame.
10/30/2019 1:10:00 PM by: Cathy Everitt
What Are We Celebrating?
7/3/2019 3:40:00 PM by: Cathy Everitt
Where’s The Remote?
6/24/2019 8:08:00 PM by: Cathy Everitt
Post-Hurricane Prayer
1/17/2019 8:45:00 AM by: Cathy Everitt
Does God Celebrate?
12/12/2018 1:35:00 PM by: Cathy Everitt
What For?
10/5/2018 9:54:00 AM by: Cathy Everitt
Birthright?
9/1/2018 6:00:00 AM by: Cathy Everitt
Exclamation Points
8/20/2018 2:20:00 AM by: Cathy Everitt
Shaking?
7/26/2018 4:45:00 AM by: Cathy Everitt
Radiance, Not Wrinkles
11/21/2017 1:00:00 PM by: Cathy Everitt
Walkin' and Talkin'
9/22/2017 7:00:00 AM by: Cathy Everitt
Touches
9/8/2017 10:15:00 AM by: Cathy Everitt
The Worry List
7/17/2017 5:28:00 AM by: Cathy Everitt
Unanswered prayer?
5/21/2017 7:30:00 AM by: Cathy Everitt
Who's Your First Love?
4/9/2017 6:00:00 AM by: Cathy Everitt
Worse Than Sickness
12/6/2016 7:00:00 AM by: Cathy Everitt
The Highest Price
11/28/2016 2:16:00 AM by: Cathy Everitt
No Perfect Christmas
11/21/2016 2:00:00 AM by: Cathy Everitt
Sacrificing Thanks
11/14/2016 2:00:00 AM by: Cathy Everitt
The Director
11/7/2016 3:00:00 AM by: Cathy Everitt
Watching Dead People
10/31/2016 2:00:00 AM by: Cathy Everitt
Against The Goad
10/24/2016 5:45:00 AM by: Cathy Everitt
Eating His Words
10/17/2016 2:00:00 AM by: Cathy Everitt
Glory
10/9/2016 3:00:00 AM by: Cathy Everitt
What Does The Future Hold?
10/4/2016 3:00:00 AM by: Cathy Everitt
More Sweetness
9/27/2016 8:59:00 AM by: Cathy Everitt
Delicious Cycle Revisited
9/20/2016 7:09:58 AM by: Cathy Everitt
A Delicious Cycle
9/13/2016 12:00:01 AM by: Cathy Everitt
Winning and Losing
9/6/2016 12:00:01 AM by: Cathy Everitt
When I lose, I win
8/30/2016 12:00:01 AM by: Cathy Everitt
Sunrise
8/23/2016 12:00:01 AM by: Cathy Everitt
Impressions of Amsterdam
8/16/2016 7:07:48 AM by: Cathy Everitt
Sing 'Til I'm Satisfied
8/8/2016 12:00:01 AM by: Cathy Everitt
Ever-Increasing
7/26/2016 12:12:19 PM by: Cathy Everitt
Corrie
7/11/2016 1:28:43 PM by: Cathy Everitt
Favorites?
6/28/2016 10:27:10 AM by: Cathy Everitt
I love reminders from these guys...
6/14/2016 12:00:01 AM by: Cathy Everitt
How Can I Help?
6/7/2016 1:43:00 PM by: Cathy Everitt
A Perfect Flower
5/31/2016 by: Cathy Everitt
