FOREVER CHANGED

FOREVER CHANGED


Life CHANGES US=
Affliction=discomfort=brokenness=
Physical pain and emotional heartache
WEIGH us down


It is not easy to
Go THROUGH any of this=
But once we are through it
We are FOREVER CHANGED


And we are forever changed
Because of our ENCOUNTER
With God and Jesus=
And FOR the better


“It is GOOD for me
That I have
Been afflicted


That I may LEARN
Your statutes” Psalm 119:71


PAIN in life is unavoidable
But we don't always
Have to SUFFER


We can LEAN on God
And Jesus=
And let them
CARRY us forward


“He tends his flock
Like a shepherd
He gathers the lambs
In his arms


And CARRIES them
Close to his heart
But gently leads those
Who have young” Isaiah 40:11


“And whoever
Does NOT CARRY their cross
And follow me
Cannot be my disciple” Luke 14:27


“For prophecy never
Had its origin
In the human will


But prophets
Though human
Spoke with God


As they were
CARRIED along
By the Holy Spirit” 2 Peter 1:21


When we COOPERATE
With God=
And commit
To learning our LESSONS
We are FOREVER CHANGED
For the good


When we look back=
We marvel how
We ever made it through


And look at everything
We GAINED=in
Our precious losses


For all the SUFFERING
In our lives=
We come through
BETTER for it


We are better
MORE MATURE human beings


“Let perseverance
Finish its work


So that you can be
MATURE and complete
Not lacking anything” James 1:4


“All of us then
Who are MATURE
Should take such a view
Of things” Philippians 3:15


Yes we are FOREVER CHANGED
By suffering and PAIN


But further=we are forever CHANGED
For the GOOD BY GOD=
Because of our experience


In Jesus' name=and in the name of OUR ALL LOVING FATHER


Robert P. Wallman
2-17-20




Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Kristin Armstrong