Things happen...Maybe a friend let you down, someone you knew got sick, perhaps even died, a loved one moved away and was no longer there to lift your spirits, calm your heart or speak words of comfort that only someone who truly loves you could...Any one of a million different things can happen that leave you hurt, disillusioned and in despair.
What you do with your seeming misfortune rests solely in your fundamental view of life. You can ask, why me? and take the easy but futile lower road to self-pity, despair and destruction or you can take the higher road that teaches us from those experiences that "we are more than conquerors through Him that loves us" (Romans 8:37)... Like a fragrant offering to God we glorify Him in overcoming those things that brought us so much pain.
You see, it's through the storms of life that come our way that God teaches us, strengthens us, molds and fashions us into His glorious image...Until the storms come, the rain and the hail fall, and the gales carry the beaten petals in the wind, does the rose ever smell so sweet! ❤️️