Category: Devotions

Hindsight is Always 20/20

Wisdom is sweet to your soul; if you find it, there is a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off. Proverbs 24:14

I say this probably 8-10 times a day. Hindsight is always 20/20. But to be more correct, in looking back, sometimes people don’t get clarity. They don’t understand. They don’t change or they do not allow themselves to be humbled by the experience. Idn life with every experience you are supposed to get wiser. But if you don’t open yourself up to go through the situation and grow–in difficulty, stress, and strife–you can almost certainly expect to miss what you are supposed to learn. Look at the verse above: if you find wisdom, there is a future hope for you. You can help someone else, you can avoid the situation if it comes around again, you can progress into whatever comes next adequately prepared. And you can have hope. Looking back at all that I have survived and overcame just in the last 6 years, I am truly blessed. And you are too; whatever troubles and strifes that have come in your life, you are here. God saw fit to keep you here to minister to others through your success. Be encouraged and don’t give up.

Surely there is a future, And your hope will not be cut off. Proverbs 23:18

Not a Cake Walk

“In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials,” 1 Peter 1:6

The Christian walk is not easy. We have good days, good weeks, good months sometimes and then we get bombarded with the devil’s attacks. He hates losing to God! However, because we are saved and believe in the redemption given to us through Christ. Suffering is a part of the journey because Christ suffered. Suffering is not only a tool of the devil, but a way that God can mold us, prune us, and prepare us for His work. All throughout the new testament we are told of how out suffering in Jesus’ name entitles us to the reward later. In 1 Peter 5:10 it says “After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you.” That’s one great promise. So stick it out and tough it out, life is NOT a cake walk! We are counted blessed for enduring!!

James 5:11 Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.

A few more: James 1:2, Romans 5:2, Matthew 5:12, 1 Peter 3:17, James 1:12.

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“The joy of the Lord is your strength.” Nehemiah 8:10
Marquita B. Priester