When Its Not All Sunshine and AppleJacks

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Have you ever felt an anger too real for words? One you couldn't even express if you wanted to?

I get worse than angry sometimes...livid when I doubt God's goodness.

I don't want today to be one of those, I would rather be steel, typing 'Hallelujah' after every word littering this piece with words like 'victory' and 'assurance,' but I feel neither.

I mean, I could lie and tell you its all Sunshine and Apple Jacks on my side of the beach, but I won't.

What I will tell you is that no matter how badly people discount your very existence, God affirms it.

Jesus doesn't ignore your prayers, His answers are Yes, No and Later.

When your doctor refuses to see you for lack of funds, count it as joy and his loss.

When security gives you the extra up and down, remember that yours is the Kingdom of Heaven.

And when you don't a fancy comeback to the question “What do you do?” Be encouraged. God already knows what you're going to be, and that's perfect, a perfect reflection of His Son Jesus Christ. Maybe not today, but soon.

“For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written,
“For your sake we are being killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
-Romans 8:22-39

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