In the world TRIBULATION.
We are told! Christ our Lord tells us we will have TRIBULATION. Why don't we believe Him? Why are we surprised at the TRIBULATION in our lives, in the world as if it is some strange, unnatural thing? In CHRIST we will have peace, but it is NOT the peace that is found in the world. Christ even tells us that plainly!
Joh_14:27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you: not as the world giveth, give I to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
NOT AS THE WORLD GIVES!
Joh 16:33 These things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye will have tribulation, but be of good cheer: I have overcome the world.
In the world you will have tribulation.
Joh_16:20 Verily, verily, I say to you, that ye will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice: and ye will be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.
Weep, lament all the while the world rejoices.
Joh_16:21 A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
Filled with agony the closer it is to the return of our Lord.
In the world YOU WILL HAVE tribulation!
As one troubling thing after another happens. As one fight after another occurs. As one sickness arises only to be followed by another. As hardships prevail seemingly without an end in sight, this is the tribulation WE WILL HAVE TRIBULATION. These are NOT signs of our disfavor with GOD! These tribulations are not marks of our failures! These are the tribulations we are told we will have in the world!
Our joy comes not from having no tribulation, but in KNOWING Jesus overcame the world. Knowing even as we may be living our worst life, Jesus overcame the world!
Jesus overcame the world!
We can have peace in our hearts and in our minds, and not a speck of peace anywhere else, knowing Christ overcame the world!
That is why we can look upon the horrific suffering in this world and still say, God is good. That is why we can feel sorrow after sorrow, heartache after heartache, agony after agony and still say, God is good. Jesus overcame the world!
His peace is knowing He overcame the world and we can have His peace, we can KNOW HE OVERCAME THE WORLD- this is knowledge that can't be taken from our hearts. He overcame!
In this world we will have TRIBULATION.
In this world we can be of good cheer during that tribulation by knowing Jesus overcame all the horrors of this world and in His overcoming, promises us salvation through Him! Salvation won't come through your efforts to overcome but Satan wants you to think that is the only way so he can slap you silly with your constant failures. Salvation comes because CHRIST overcame the world! This is HIS PEACE in TRIBULATION.
We are told! Christ our Lord tells us we will have TRIBULATION. Why don't we believe Him? Why are we surprised at the TRIBULATION in our lives, in the world as if it is some strange, unnatural thing? In CHRIST we will have peace, but it is NOT the peace that is found in the world. Christ even tells us that plainly!
Joh_14:27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you: not as the world giveth, give I to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
NOT AS THE WORLD GIVES!
Joh 16:33 These things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye will have tribulation, but be of good cheer: I have overcome the world.
In the world you will have tribulation.
Joh_16:20 Verily, verily, I say to you, that ye will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice: and ye will be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.
Weep, lament all the while the world rejoices.
Joh_16:21 A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
Filled with agony the closer it is to the return of our Lord.
In the world YOU WILL HAVE tribulation!
As one troubling thing after another happens. As one fight after another occurs. As one sickness arises only to be followed by another. As hardships prevail seemingly without an end in sight, this is the tribulation WE WILL HAVE TRIBULATION. These are NOT signs of our disfavor with GOD! These tribulations are not marks of our failures! These are the tribulations we are told we will have in the world!
Our joy comes not from having no tribulation, but in KNOWING Jesus overcame the world. Knowing even as we may be living our worst life, Jesus overcame the world!
Jesus overcame the world!
We can have peace in our hearts and in our minds, and not a speck of peace anywhere else, knowing Christ overcame the world!
That is why we can look upon the horrific suffering in this world and still say, God is good. That is why we can feel sorrow after sorrow, heartache after heartache, agony after agony and still say, God is good. Jesus overcame the world!
His peace is knowing He overcame the world and we can have His peace, we can KNOW HE OVERCAME THE WORLD- this is knowledge that can't be taken from our hearts. He overcame!
In this world we will have TRIBULATION.
In this world we can be of good cheer during that tribulation by knowing Jesus overcame all the horrors of this world and in His overcoming, promises us salvation through Him! Salvation won't come through your efforts to overcome but Satan wants you to think that is the only way so he can slap you silly with your constant failures. Salvation comes because CHRIST overcame the world! This is HIS PEACE in TRIBULATION.