"Many are the afflictions (problems) of the righteous: but the Lord delivers (them) out of them all."
I remember reading this: "The question is not whether we will encounter problems; the real question is how we will choose to address them." There is no question that all people encounter problems. People whose lives are not exemplary encounter them, and people who live righteously encounter them. Somewhere along the line, we have come up with the idea that if we live righteously, we will not encounter problems. I don't know where that came from but it surely didn't come from the Bible. Could we really say that Moses never encountered problems? Read about Moses in Exodus through Deuteronomy and you will see that he had many problems. A lot of his problems arose from dealing with people chosen of God to be His people and to bring the Messiah into the world. We certainly could not say that David did not have any problems. He was called "a man after God's own heart," but he encountered problem after problem - some of them because of his own behavior. The point of this article is to point out that, though we will have problems in this life, it is important how we deal with them. We deal with our problems by taking them to the Lord. The Lord has promised that He will help us deal with them, and will "deliver (us) out of them all." Does this mean that when we take our problems to the Lord, He paves the way before us and our lives become easy and problem-free? This was not the experience of the godly people mentioned above, and it has not been true in my life, nor has it been true in anyone else's life that I know. We have to understand that God allows problems in our lives in order to teach us. For example, He uses problems in our lives to teach us patience. We might have to undergo a particular problem over an extended period of time. This does not mean that God has not dealt with the problem. It means that we have something to learn from the problem, and when we learn it, the problem will be solved. Why does God do things as He does? I don't know, but I do know that if God does something that it is for the best and that when He works it out, my life will be better and I will be a better person. Let's stop complaining about our problems and entrust them to God. (Preaching to myself also!) Bro. Joe
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