Counting it All Joy Today

So another one of my life views was shattered recently, and my whole family is in a daze from this one.  Fortunately for me the Holy Spirit speaks to me and reminds we of what I have studied and learned.  I am speaking joy into the life of everyone that I know who knows Jesus and to everyone I know who doesn't I am praying that they desire the joy that can only come from a relationship with Jesus Christ.  My life seems to be getting more and more shaky, but when I am weak God shows his strength and power and love on my behalf.  Because I have studied to show myself approved I can say that this is a test and I am going to pass by the grace of God.  My paradigm has shifted about three times in two days so I am still a little dizzy from the whirlwind, but here is the bottom line.  I am excited about the fact that God knows that my family can handle this.  He has trusted us with this trial and that is pretty amazing because he doesn't put on us more than we ca bear so he must see us as pretty tough.  We have studied and we are ready for this test.  I believe that we are passing and will pass this test, and I believe that the glory of the Lord will shine brighter than ever by the time we come out of this.  We are more than conquerors in Jesus Christ, and we are capable, confident, and courageous enough to be broken for God to be glorified.  I refuse to curse God.  That happened already when Jesus became a curse on the cross that we might become the righteousness of God.  I will not attempt to deal with the situation in my own way.  For God's ways are higher than my ways and his thoughts are higher than my thoughts.  Hallelujah for that. I will not feel sorry for myself, but glorify God.  I will count it all joy and rejoice in my affliction because greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world and by his striped we were healed.  We are healed already, as a family, as individuals, as the body of Christ, as children of the most high God.  I choose to love and not to fear; I choose to forgive and not to exact revenge.  I choose to pray and trust God and not fight.  I trust God and I am not leaning on what I think I know.  I am letting the Holy Ghost do its comforting thing and its healing thing, and I am smiling because I know that God still loves us.  That's it.  I am pressing on and forgetting that which is behind as best I can.  The joy of the Lord is my strength, and the peace of God which passeth all understanding shall keep my heart and mind in Christ Jesus.

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