Weekly Encouragement: Dignified Response to Loss & Pain

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Past few days I have been feeling very disappointed and deceived as our car driver took the car out without informing me and damaged it so much that the cost of repairing it was very high. I wondered why and how God allowed such thing to happen that someone we were hoping to respond to the gospel has deceived us and caused so much loss and yet not confessing the truth nor accepting it.

Recent events have opened our eyes to see many truths underlying human suffering and our response to it as well as the principles involved in exercising super self-control in the midst of struggles and pain in life. The main event that drew international attention is the natural calamity in Japan.

Many lessons we can learn from the way Japanese responded to the crisis (Tsunami) in their country recently and are coping up with such tragedy:

Now, can we imagine what a higher lifestyle Japanese chose to live? Even the America known as the first advanced country in the world, does not display such dignified response to such emergencies. Indians can panic and create riots in the midst of such scarcity of basic needs.

I have been challenged to look for such super lifestyle to adapt if it is possible. Here's the hope. Here are the resources available today for each of us to experience a change in our lifestyles.

As I read the Apostle Paul's letter to Corinthians, I learn that despite the difficulties we face, God understands our struggle. That's why He has given us His Word, His power, and His people; they are available to help us. Amen.

2 Cor 1:4  Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

Joel 2:25  And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.

Be encouraged.

A. Othniel

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