& sigh huh, 4 what ALL (it's?!) worth - 4 better or worse Coming worth, Jesus NEVER said it'd B easy ie: this 1st of 2 temporary human trial's & tribulation's TESTING-tested life - as however generally, misc said more less, 2 tick tock 'Time' (flying-flies) exist is a privilege, NOT a right (ie: in-of itself 4 SELF but via Holy Bible's Luke 9:24) via God, we R 2 ONLY daily live SELF deny capable REAL male & female adult Warrior 4 HIM alone, at least 2 ME & 2 U ALL out there USA-globally (NO matter 1's temporary human flesh skin exterior dust & ash corpse color race NOR wherever U live locally USA-globally upon this dying non human innocent Earth).

Troubles
MARCH 5, 2024

If children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.
Romans 8:17

Recommended Reading: Romans 8:31-35
Salesmen speak about the features and benefits of a product. What if one of the features described was suffering that resulted from using the product? Sometimes new Christians are surprised to discover that they still have troubles in life after becoming a follower of Jesus. They feel the “product” wasn’t presented fairly.

Jesus told His disciples that “in the world you will have tribulation” (John 16:33). That was not to scare them but to prepare them. Paul explained further: In Christ, we are “joint heirs” with Him. As “joint heirs,” one of the things we inherit is to “suffer with Him” that we might also share in His glory (Romans 8:17). Paul then spent the next 22 verses of Romans 8 (verses 18-39) explaining the suffering we may experience in this world but that in Christ we are “more than conquerors” (verse 37). God uses everything we experience—even our troubles—to conform us to the image of Christ (verses 28-29). Nothing in this world—not even our sins—can separate us from the love of God (verses 34-39).

Whether our troubles are from the world or of our own making, God is faithful. Give Him thanks today for His faithful love.

Shall light troubles make you forget weighty mercies?
John Flavel

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or trouble, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. Romans 8:35 8:37 NASB

Living in the Gap
FEBRUARY 15, 2024

And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope.
Romans 5:3-4

Recommended Reading: Hebrews 11:1-3
There is no word more central to biblical teaching than faith. For instance, 2 Corinthians 5:7 says, “We walk by faith, not by sight.” (See also Romans 1:17.) But what is faith? Hebrews 11:1 says, “Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see” (NIV1984). Faith is not just hoping for something we cannot at present see. It is being “sure” and “certain” that we will in time see it. But what are we authorized to be certain of? Whatever God has promised in His Word. John 3:16 promises eternal life to all who believe in Jesus. Therefore, we can be certain, by faith, that we have eternal life.

This raises the question: How do we live in the gap between not seeing and seeing? What do we do while we wait for God to fulfill His promise? We persevere. Echoing Hebrews 11:1, Romans 8:25 says, “But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance.”

Biblical faith is characterized by perseverance. If you are in the gap, wait faithfully on God by persevering.

We persevere through faith and never apart from it.
Sinclair Ferguson

Basic Doctrine's of the True Christian Faith - Contrary (opposite but 2 correct) 2 what many of the world's USA-global churches clergy teach, faith (via Holy Bible's Hebrews 11:1) alone WON'T save 1 - U. After believing in Jesus, 1 - U MUST continue 2 follow the literal, honest, truthful teaching's of Holy Bible, live a righteous & Holy temporary human NON SELF owned (via Luke 9:25: NONE SELF owns NOTHING, NOT breath NOR Soul) human life, bear good fruit, SELF denyingly endure (remain humble patiently) persecution & tribulation (backlash, retaliation, misc) POINT: don't B a past exhibition of Peter, denying Jesus 3 times.