Count it all Joy!

Greetings from Me and My House,

"Count it all joy when you fall in various trials." Has that always been your favorite verse? I really don't see many Christians applying this one - me included. But this I know, God wrote it; it is truth; I need to do it.

I wrestle with God's Sovereignty and man's sin. Although I know that God works all things for good for those that love Him and are called according to His purpose, I don't believe that sin is God's design and plan. But this I do know, God allows sin, and the good that He wants to bring out of it is the conforming of my character to the image of Christ.

Clay that I am, I don't like being pushed and squeezed. I don't like being in the heat of the fire. But...

He works good for those that love Him and are called according to His purpose, so when others sin against me, and I am in the midst of various trials, I can - WILL - count it all JOY, because He is conforming me to the image of His Son, as I submit to His work in my life.

At Jesus' feet,