27/02/2016 - TROUBLED WITH EVERY ADVERSTITY

• 
• 
• 
• 

So nation was destroyed by nation, and city by city, for God troubled them with every adversity. 2 Chronicles 15:6

Nothing must be worse than moving away from God, to the point of God Himself trouble you with adversity. Instead of living in a quiet way, there are people who say they don’t care about bad things that can happen to them. However, when things get worse, many people come to the conclusion that it is no longer worth living. Now, if life has become a burden, why not seek the Lord in the Word, walk in communion with Him, and so, experience refreshing days? 

A little bit of silence from the Lord causes us to feel troubled, but having Him as our adversary means that nothing else will go right in our lives. Never fall on the enemy’s trap of not getting worried if you will have or if you won’t have the presence of God, for, without it, no one can withstand the storms that will come. The best thing is to be out of the devil´s operating area, and inside the good, perfect and pleasant will of the Father. 

Disrupt a people or an individual with all disturbances is one of the extreme measures taken by the Most High to warn people of the danger they are going through and give Him the means to take them out of the error, of loneliness and of the desire to live according to the evil one. Woe to him who is not under divine protection, for, most assuredly, they will experience Satan´s hatred and his capacity to steal, kill and destroy. 

When a person is outside of God´s grace, the way they live is noticeable, even if they are always in church. Unbelievable! Many people move away from the Lord and don’t see any problem in living in sin and they forget that all things are temporary in this world and eternal perdition is irreversible. Those who don’t mind where they will spend eternity are already contaminated, just like it happened to Eve when she was tempted in Eden. 

When all things begin to go wrong, it is time to turn back to the Almighty, seeking the gift of forgiveness, for the Word declares that there is no curse without a cause (Proverbs 26:2). In Job´s case, there was a cause so that Satan received permission to touch him. Today, likewise, he can only touch those who are in his hands for something wrong they have committed. Jesus told the paralytic man in John 5 for him to sin no more, so that something worse did not happen to him.  

When you are in fellowship with God, you enjoy a pleasant, delightful and good life. He, who loves Jesus, is loving, happy and victorious; however, those who only convert themselves to a church are usually fanatic, bitter, and gossipers as well. Those who put their faith in Jesus don’t mind about being hurt, ridiculed, for they understand that all of this is part Christ´s suffering. 

To follow the precepts of the Lord is something that gives us pleasure and delivers us from trouble in all adversity. The rebellious will experience divine wrath, and not the Father´s love. What do you say?

In Christ, with love,

R. R. Soares