Consider It All Joy

<p><em>My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 3Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. 4But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. James 1:2-4</em></p> <p> </p> <p><em>Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice. Philippians 4:4</em></p> <p> </p> <p>Last week I say Romans 8:28 sucked - <em>28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.</em></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>This week the Lord told me something about that.  He gave me clarity.</strong></p> <p> </p> <p>You know what sucks?  <strong>Dying and not getting a chance to do ANYTHING.  Let alone complain</strong>. </p> <p> </p> <p>If you hear me right now, consider if you couldn’t.  Consider where you might be if you were unable to hear this podcast epoisode.  Would you be sick, in the hospital, without hearing, ears, dead and waiting judgement?</p> <p> </p> <p>Let say you woke up from being knocked unconscious like our heroes in the movies.  You discovered yourself to be now tied up in a jail, shackled to the floor. When you woke up.  You got two choices, say damn this suck or YAY them mofos didn’t kill me yet.  Its all perspective.  And the latter is best because if GOD didn’t let the enemy take you out, you are still apart of the great plan.  You still got work.  You are still important.  You are still a player in the game.</p> <p> </p> <p>I was at the traffic light coming to work. and I remembered my Call to ministry. It was to serve.  My situation, with my wifes health changed my life.  It changed me.  I thought I had it going on.  I was feeling like a failure in some things in my life.  It’s a common thing at certain points in your life, when you feel like you haven’t accomplished what you should have.  Or you compare yourself with others.  And the result often is, this sucks.  But I said all things work together for the good, right.  Whose Good?  To Them that love God co