02/12/2024
This kind of mindset 😇
TO HANDLE DIFFICULTIES.
There is something that is very real to all of us who are a part of humanity, and that is the fact that there are troubles, there are sorrows, and there are difficulties that confront us all. Never think that because I am God’s child and anointed of Him that I have no troubles, no problems or no difficulties. The reason that I can help you with your problems and your troubles and your sorrows is because I have troubles too, just like you do. If I didn’t, I could never tell you what to do with yours, for we cannot give to anyone else more than we have experienced ourselves. I could not tell you what to do when you have a broken heart if my own heart had not been broken. I could not give you words of comfort if I had not gone through sorrow myself and been comforted by God, who is the God of all comfort. I can only give you what I know from personal experience about how to handle difficulties.
First of all, remember something:A difficulty can break or make you. When you come face to face with a difficulty in that life of yours, it will either make you a bigger, a stronger, a better person, or that difficulty will break you. It depends entirely on you—what you do with it. It does not depend on someone else, the person with whom you live, or the one with whom you are associated. It is natural to try to put the blame on someone else, instead of facing the problem and handling it the way you should. It all depends on how you take hold of it that spells out the results.
Sometimes I think that our difficulties can be compared
to knives that either serve us or cut us. How we grasp them—by the blade or by the handle—determines whether we are cut or served. To take hold of a difficulty in the wrong way brings the same results as clutching a knife by the blade, and that’s what some folks always seem to do. Perhaps a difficulty has come into your life and the first thing you did was grab it by the blade. It cut you, and it wasn’t long before you found that the difficulty master you. You were hurt. You were defeated. But when you grasp your trouble by the handle, you can use it to your advantage, and it can become the greatest and most valuable tool that ever came into your life.
Difficulty is an inescapable fact of life, and Almighty God put it there for a purpose. We must never forget that it is God’s purpose to make stronger men and women of us. God never created you or me to be weak or defeated. He made us to be strong people, and He could not make us strong without difficulty coming into our lives. So we should be thankful for difficulty. We should be proud that God deemed us able to handle the trouble. Many times I have looked up and said: “Dear Lord, if You didn’t think I could take it, You wouldn’t have permitted it. You have more confidence in me than I have in myself, so I will not focus my eyes on my own lack, but on Your faith in me. Thank You for the compliment.”
If God could anoint your eyes with Holy Spirit eye salve, causing you to see why He allowed that difficulty to come into your life, then instead of tears of self-pity you would shed tears of joy, and you would be the happiest person in the world.
- Kathryn Kuhlman ( Heart To Heart )
- JESUS SAVES TV
