He is my Delight

It is a fact of life that trouble comes to all.  To the rich and poor, the proud and humble, the young and old.  No one is exempt.

“Yet man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.”  Job 5:7

With each new difficulty we are given the opportunity to choose our response to it.  What will we do in the day of trouble?  This is a question of great importance.  I love this quote by Hannah Whitall Smith:

We may make out of each event in our lives either a Juggernaut car to crush us, or a chariot in which to ride to heights of victory. It all depends upon how we take them; whether we lie down under our trials and let them roll over and crush us, or whether we climb up into them as into a chariot, and make them carry us triumphantly onward and upward.

2 Corinthians 4:17 tells us that “our light affliction which is but for a moment is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.”

Each difficulty presented, each sorrow to be endured, each gut-wrenching choice of obedience that must be made, they are invitations to glory.  In each new challenge, an opportunity to die a little bit more to ourselves and to become more alive to who He is.  Suddenly, our own comfort, even our own personal desires and happiness are no longer as important as they once seemed to be.

We are invited to glory.

This changes everything.