An old joke line was the good news bad news…it went like this

I’ve got bad news…The bar in town burned down… 

Good news they built a new one

Bad news they don’t sell beer

Good news the beer is free

Bad news, they don’t have any glasses

Good news they have buckets

Bad news the buckets have holes in them

Good news, the holes are at the top of the bucket

 

The bible speaks of calamity and hard times and even the end times as a way of God getting our attention. Not only the Christian but the non Christian. In fact scripture says that it will be the end times and the tribulation that will reawaken the jews to the gospel of Jesus Christ…

 

All in all the simplicity of this stands to conclude that the hard times that the bad times, that the worst times, that the things that don’t kill us, do in fact make us stronger if we keep our faith in Christ.

Look its as simple as understanding that the unforeseen problem leads you to new mindsets and break throughs.

the Person who breaks your rule and steals your idea is the reason you came up with something better and even more unique.

The extra weight on the bar makes it hard which is what makes you strong. 

 

I love what Physicist John Archibald Wheeler says

-and I quote - Behind it all is surely an idea so simple ,so beautiful, so compelling

that when-in a decade, a century, or a millennium-we grasp it, we 

will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise?

-Physicist John Archibald Wheeler

so with this mindset is it any wonder God tells us to rejoice in times of suffering, in times of trouble, in times of distress… we are to rejoice in all things especially the hard things… because it is what brings out the best in us if we continue to trust God…

What a bummer of a story if it is told that King Darius demanded the boys Shad Shack and Benny to bow or burn and he heated up the fire and they decide to bow… it wouldn’t have the same life altering impact on the listener… and even if they had burned up to a pile of ashes.. still it would resound of faith over fire.

What is the best God has for you? Well its just on the other side of what is bad for you. Embrace it and thank him… you will understand in the end.