Grace and Strength…Our Gift!
"By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established;
through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures." -
Proverbs 24:3-4
As we walk down the road of life we gain wisdom through each experience that
comes our way. As we go through these experiences and circumstances we come to a
fork in the road so to speak, here we must make a choice of how we allow the
experiences in our lives to shape us. They can become a negative or a postive
influence on us. They can make us bitter or jaded, and we judge all else in our
lives against this negative standard we’ve experienced, or we can learn, grow,
mature and become stronger from having gone through them with the proper
perspective. The Lord never guaranteed us an "EASY" life…what He did say was
He would be with us through it all, and He would give us the grace and strength
to go through the struggles. There is a difference between "staying in the
struggle"…and "going through it". As we go through the game of life we can
become "sidelined" on the bench…or we can pick ourselves up off the floor and
get back in the game again. Learning from the losses how to play a better, more
skilled game and rejoicing in the victories. And gaining precious wisdom each
step of the way.