Many of us grew up in a household where we were taught about God. Many of us grew up going to Church and Sunday School and learned about the many different Bible stories and Bible characters.
Over these past few years, we have experienced a variety of things that has caused us to lose things.
As we take time to look at our lives there should not be any doubt that The Lord loves us. Every day He shows His love to us in a multitude of ways. Mary and Martha knew that Jesus loved them and their brother Lazarus.
In life we are going to have good and bad days, and we will also have ups and downs. In the midst of our good days, we should not have any difficulty being thankful to The Lord, and even in our bad days we still should be thankful to The Lord.
It is important for us to remember it is not where we start that makes the difference, but it is where we end up that counts the most. If we had a choice to start at the top or at the bottom, many of us would choose to start at the top, because it looks more prestigious, and it just seems to make more sense to start at the top.
There are some things that we can get do by using sheer strength. There are some other things that we may be able to get done by using the power we have to make things happen.
Imagine that there is a law that is passed that for thirty days we could not pray, and if we were caught praying, we would be given the death penalty. For some they would just not pray, and they would make it through the thirty days.
There are some things that we are able to do without even thinking about it. Then there are some other things that we can do if we have help.
There are times in each of our lives that when we needed an uplifting word of encouragement, it came at the right time. We have people in our lives that we can go to and get advice and seek counsel from, and usually this will give us what we need to push through the tough times.
