Truth or Consequences

It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES. The beliefs are the direct cause of what we feel and what we do next. They can spell the difference between dejection and giving up, on the one hand, and well-being and constructive action on the other. The first step is to see the connection between adversity, belief, and consequence. The second step is to see how the ABCs operate every day in your own life.
Martin E. P. Seligman

Job 2:9-10
Then his wife said to him, "Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die!" But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept adversity?" In all this Job did not sin with his lips. NASU

We shouldn’t judge the wife of Job to harshly. She was watching her loved one virtually being destroyed before her eyes. It was a plea for the end of his suffering, without a thought for its cost. Satan could not kill him, but he was allowed to cause Job major pain. Those men that came to be with him sat with him for seven days without saying a word, for they saw his pain was so great.

What we all admire about Job is that with all of his suffering…he would not curse God. Job had learned well the consequences of obedience to the Lord, and disobedience, and he drew a line in his life and decided he would never cross that line.

I’m afraid that there is a need in today’s world for that line to be restored in the lives of many. They have crossed over it so often…they don’t even know where it is, or what they believe anymore. Adversity is a good tool to help us find that line again, to get back into obedience and to again reverence our Lord. This will have eternal consequences for us all…God Bless
Pastor William