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Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Praise God He Goes Through Everything with Us
May my brothers and sisters in the Lord Jesus Christ praise His name today for all that He did for us on that cross and what He does for us every day as we learn new lessons and become stronger because of them.
Hebrews 12:6-13
"6 For whom the Lord loves He disciplines,
And He punishes every son whom He accepts.”
7 It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.
9 Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?
10 For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness.
11 For the moment, all discipline seems not to be pleasant, but painful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.
12 Therefore, strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble,
13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that the limb which is impaired may not be dislocated, but rather be healed."
Discipline can be for wrong attitudes or sinful actions, but often when we are walking with the Lord, the discipline is not for punishment but for strengthening.
We cannot become strong if we never have to struggle with anything. I once heard a young mother explain to others that she did not always help her three-year-old daughter with things she struggles with because the struggling and trying, and persevering is what builds emotional and even physical muscle.
This is not cruel but loving to allow a child to fall off a bike and get up by themselves. I remember falling off my bike as a child, feeling so silly for it that I cried and laughed at the same time. No one picked me up because I was able to pick myself up.
It is loving and kind to say words like, "Are you alright, dear?" or "Do you need any help?" But to rush over and help up someone who is able to help themselves can hinder their growth and impede their strength.
Yesterday I fell in a parking lot. I am suffering from illness and am not always agile, so I tripped. My husband was with me and aghast that I might be hurt. A lovely lady came rushing over, asking to help when I felt ready to get up. My husband and the lady waited patiently until the shock of falling passed, and the tears flowed from fear, since the last thing I need is to have anything broken.
I cried out loud to God to keep me from having one more thing wrong with me, and graciously, He answered my prayer. I was scraped on one knee, but nothing else was seriously wrong with me.
I praised God for my loving husband and that kind lady who expressed concern and helped me up when I was over my shock. Falling off a bike when we are children is nothing compared to falling as a little old lady who is already having health issues.
Every day, I sense the loving kindness of my Savior helping me and guiding me through life, every lesson a blessing. It is more important to me to learn to trust in Christ through various trials and struggles than to live a struggle-free life that would teach me nothing spiritual.
Our Spiritual and emotional muscles must become stronger through difficulties, but they can only do that if we are trusting in Christ. They can only become strong when we can openly and honestly express them. I thank God for the pressure-releasing value of tears.
Even Christ wept over Jerusalem, realizing their rejection of salvation through Him. He wept before He went to the cross, knowing the agony that He was about to suffer for mankind.
Jesus Comforts Martha and Mary
…34“Where have you put him?” He asked. “Come and see, Lord,” they answered. 35 Jesus wept. 36 Then the Jews said, “See how He loved him!”
Jesus wept for others' trials as well as His own.
Hebrews 4:15 "For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who was tempted in every way that we are, yet was without sin."
I never see any passage in Scripture in which Christ chastised someone for weeping. He is not only a compassionate God but has experienced His own grief and tears.
My counsel to grieving or tormented souls is to cry out to God, literally allow your tears to flow; this is God's stress relief mechanism for our bodies. There is a sort of cleansing that occurs when we allow our bodies to do what they are designed to do.
May my brothers and sisters in Christ learn to lean on Christ through everything, knowing He has a purpose in it all for our own good.
Romans 8:28
"28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose."
Hallelujah!!!
Hebrews 12:6-13
"6 For whom the Lord loves He disciplines,
And He punishes every son whom He accepts.”
7 It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.
9 Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?
10 For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness.
11 For the moment, all discipline seems not to be pleasant, but painful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.
12 Therefore, strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble,
13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that the limb which is impaired may not be dislocated, but rather be healed."
Discipline can be for wrong attitudes or sinful actions, but often when we are walking with the Lord, the discipline is not for punishment but for strengthening.
We cannot become strong if we never have to struggle with anything. I once heard a young mother explain to others that she did not always help her three-year-old daughter with things she struggles with because the struggling and trying, and persevering is what builds emotional and even physical muscle.
This is not cruel but loving to allow a child to fall off a bike and get up by themselves. I remember falling off my bike as a child, feeling so silly for it that I cried and laughed at the same time. No one picked me up because I was able to pick myself up.
It is loving and kind to say words like, "Are you alright, dear?" or "Do you need any help?" But to rush over and help up someone who is able to help themselves can hinder their growth and impede their strength.
Yesterday I fell in a parking lot. I am suffering from illness and am not always agile, so I tripped. My husband was with me and aghast that I might be hurt. A lovely lady came rushing over, asking to help when I felt ready to get up. My husband and the lady waited patiently until the shock of falling passed, and the tears flowed from fear, since the last thing I need is to have anything broken.
I cried out loud to God to keep me from having one more thing wrong with me, and graciously, He answered my prayer. I was scraped on one knee, but nothing else was seriously wrong with me.
I praised God for my loving husband and that kind lady who expressed concern and helped me up when I was over my shock. Falling off a bike when we are children is nothing compared to falling as a little old lady who is already having health issues.
Every day, I sense the loving kindness of my Savior helping me and guiding me through life, every lesson a blessing. It is more important to me to learn to trust in Christ through various trials and struggles than to live a struggle-free life that would teach me nothing spiritual.
Our Spiritual and emotional muscles must become stronger through difficulties, but they can only do that if we are trusting in Christ. They can only become strong when we can openly and honestly express them. I thank God for the pressure-releasing value of tears.
Even Christ wept over Jerusalem, realizing their rejection of salvation through Him. He wept before He went to the cross, knowing the agony that He was about to suffer for mankind.
Jesus Comforts Martha and Mary
…34“Where have you put him?” He asked. “Come and see, Lord,” they answered. 35 Jesus wept. 36 Then the Jews said, “See how He loved him!”
Jesus wept for others' trials as well as His own.
Hebrews 4:15 "For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who was tempted in every way that we are, yet was without sin."
I never see any passage in Scripture in which Christ chastised someone for weeping. He is not only a compassionate God but has experienced His own grief and tears.
My counsel to grieving or tormented souls is to cry out to God, literally allow your tears to flow; this is God's stress relief mechanism for our bodies. There is a sort of cleansing that occurs when we allow our bodies to do what they are designed to do.
May my brothers and sisters in Christ learn to lean on Christ through everything, knowing He has a purpose in it all for our own good.
Romans 8:28
"28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose."
Hallelujah!!!
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