The scripture for today, January 12, is James 1:12 as found in the New Testament of the Bible:
How loyal are you to God? Is your relationship up and down, depending on how your life is going at the moment? If you pray for something and don’t get it, do you feel like God is punishing you? If everything seems to be going wrong, do you blame God instead of Satan? Do you pray over and over for God to relieve you of a particular burden, but relief hasn’t come?
God has assignments for you. Where you are today is where he wants you. Your job is to stay loyal no matter how difficult things get. Why? To prove that love is stronger than hatred. To prove that good is stronger than bad. To prove that God is stronger than Satan.
Determine today to thank God for whatever state you are in. And, even though you may feel helpless to do anything about it right now, in your helplessness, persevere!
Nice blog Katheryn, And you’re so right, sometimes we get bogged down in our own thoughts and forget that God loves us. After all the Bible does tell us it rains on the just and the unjust alike.
Mary L. Ball
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God bless us all as we struggle to keep nhim in our sights.