When you lend someone $20 and then never see that person again, it may have been worth it!<\/p>\n
Surely you know the Spiritual called, \u201cNobody Knows the Trouble I See.\u201d Perhaps that song describes what you are facing today. It could be something so deep that you can\u2019t even share it with your closest friend. You feel like you have no one to turn to \u2014 no one with whom you can share your burden. It hurts, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n
If you are a believer in Jesus Christ, there is someone with whom you can share it. I\u2019m sure that right now you feel it isn\u2019t the same as having a living caring friend right next to you, but in your own privacy you can pour out your heart to God knowing that He hears your cry. Don\u2019t be upset if a miracle doesn\u2019t happen but expect one. Remember, you and God are a majority, but also remember that in a partnership each partner has to pull his fair share of the load. Solving your problem may involve some hard decisions and difficult actions on your part.<\/p>\n
The wise book of Proverbs say this in 18:24, \u201cA person who has friends must first show himself friendly: And there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.\u201d For you, that friend is Jesus Christ. It is through Him that you plead your case to God.<\/p>\n
THE SERENITY PRAYER<\/p>\n
God grant me the Serenity
\n to accept the things I cannot change
\n Courage to change the things I can,
\n and the Wisdom to know the difference.
\n Living one day at a time;
\n Enjoying one moment at a time;
\n Accepting hardship as the pathway to peace.
\n Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is,
\n not as I would have it.
\n Trusting that He will make all things right
\n if I surrender to His will;
\n That I may be reasonably happy in this life,
\n and supremely happy with Him in the next.
\n Amen<\/p>\n
Reinhold Niebuhr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When you lend someone $20 and then never see that person again, it may have been worth it! Surely you know the Spiritual called, \u201cNobody Knows the Trouble I See.\u201d Perhaps that song describes what you are facing today. It could be something so deep that you can\u2019t even share it with your closest friend. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2140,286,2141],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}