OVERCOMING TRIBULATION

OVERCOMING TRIBULATION

Thursday, July 13, 2017

Proverbs [MKJV] 3:5-8 Trust in Jehovah with all your heart, and lean not to your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths. Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear Jehovah and depart from evil. Healing shall be to your navel and marrow to your bones.

Matthew [GW] 4:17 From then on, Jesus began to tell people, "Turn to God and change the way you think and act, because the kingdom of heaven is near!" [Rom.12:1-3]

Matthew [MKJV] chapter 26 … He [Jesus] went a little further and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I will, but as You will. … He went away again the second time and prayed, saying, My Father, if this cup may not pass away from Me unless I drink it, Your will be done. … [Jn.5:30]

  As God Incarnate, Jesus suffered humanly. Christ being Omni, the complete *scope of His experience is incomprehensible to the human mind or experience. It is especially far beyond the mindset of the natural thinker (1Cor.2:14). And yet He overcame . . . and promised that we as followers trusting Him may do the same. (Jn.16:33)

  Does this mean He guarantees we can overcome cancer et al? Or is Jesus promising that as He, in obedience to the Father, overcame life and death as He suffered it? Do we not see this in His life story? Have we not seen this in people we know? (Our extended family definitely saw this in our dear Ann as she physically suffered and died.)

  God continues to provide. We individually continue to decide to trust and implement, or not.

EBB4

*As we mature we see more. Consider that Jesus as God Incarnate (Jn.1:1) fully saw all. We through maturation may see wheels turning within wheels. God sees the machinations of all hearts at all times. (Jn.1:1; Heb.4:12: in both verses “logos”)