UNDER PRESSURE
We want to take you to the book of James. In The MESSAGE translation it reads........2-4 "Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don’t try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way." Pressure may not seem like much of a gift.....but without it the best cannot come. You've got the Great I AM on your side( He's Omnipresent......)[so He's even under the rock with you!And where better to be than under THE ROCK? Jesus is covering you during this time of pressure.....]He's designed you to use the pressures of life for such a time as this.......to grow, and then show, His Glory flowing through you.
I want to refer you to the story of the Lobster. Here is beloved Rabbi Dr. Abraham Twerski to tell the story.( see the video below to view the story of the lobster.)https://youtu.be/dcUAIpZrwog
Watch for the next in this series......."YOU GOT TO CRUSH TO MAKE OIL AND WINE" Blessings and Healing Beloved! joseph
