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From: calgal	5/8/2014 2:11:15 PM
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Thursday, May 8 Trials and Obedience Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep Your word. Psalm 119:67 Recommended Reading Romans 5:3-5 [ iz3.me] A little boy, in trouble with his mother, decided to run away from home. He took off down the sidewalk on his tricycle and a neighbor soon observed him coming past every 10 or 15 minutes. So the neighbor stopped the little guy: "Billy, why are you going around and around the block on your trike?" "I'm running away from home," Billy said, "but I'm not allowed to cross the street by myself." Listen to Today's Radio Message [ iz3.me] That's a curious blend of trouble and obedience -- two realities we don't often link together. Sometimes we find ourselves suffering because we were disobedient. But never is obedience needed more than when we are in the midst of a trial. Happily, trials can have the positive effect of refocusing our attention on God and His Word. As the psalmist wrote, "Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep Your word." Part of obedience is simply trusting Him in the midst of trouble so the intended result -- spiritual maturity -- can be realized (James 1:4). Trials move us farther in an obedient direction toward maturity. If you are hurting for any reason, focus on obedience in order to realize God's purpose and blessing. None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials. Charles H. Spurgeon Read-Thru-the-Bible 2 Chronicles 1-4 [ iz3.me]

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