"Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning." Ps. 30:5
"God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, of love and a sound mind." 2 Tim. 1:7
"A righteous man may have many troubles, but God delivers him from them all." Ps. 34:19
It's not a matter of IF challenges will happen, they most definitely will especially when you are on the path to fulfilling your destiny. The greater your assignment or purpose in life, the greater the attacks, tests and tribulations that will come against you. Why are they coming against you? To shut you down. To make you lose focus. To seize your sound mind and ability to make good sound principle-based decisions. To make you rashly respond to external stimuli and run into a pit of destruction. To rob you of your joy, peace, love and faith which are accelerators that enable us to not only accomplish but to overcome all things. In valleys, sometimes it gets so dark, it's humanly impossible to see things right in front of our faces. That's when we have to rely solely on our faith in God and the promises in his Word, like He would never leave us or forsake.
The enemy of our faith will use his best weapons against us the closer we get to the next elevation in our lives, to stunt us or if at all possible make us abort our mission. He wants to disable our gifts and abilities to empower others and establish God's good bidding in the earth. He will use the people closest to us sometimes through situations or circumstances, to try to disable our thoughts and emotions through dark clouds of obscurity and confusion. Every minute of obscurity is a loss of 60 seconds of clarity. If he can get us confused then he can possibly move us off our course. When we are off course, we begin to see things around us in frustration and desperation. We can't tell the difference between a friend and a foe or right and wrong. We begin to respond to the world around us as if everything that happens, every encounter is yet a another sign of whatever is fueling our illogical thinking and reasoning. Sometimes we run to strange places in order to find refuge.
We should run to God. If you don't know where he is, just start running and believe me, he will meet you along the way. He will send someone to you with the word, the hug, the smile or the clarity that you need to get you back on track. They may even have to hold your hand for a part of the trek until you get the clarity back in your sensors.
Weeping MAY endure for a night but it doesn't have to. You can regain your joy at any time you so choose. Surround yourself with people who can bring you back to the light. The more Word you have in you, the quicker you will rebound from any trial, and rebound with a victorious mind!
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