Dear fellow brethren in Christ, Never give up on Christ. When we face our design especially made for us trail. Many of us have said such things as this. >Again, I have come to that conclusion. >Why do nice guys always finish last ???? >UHGH ! Or we have many other choice words used in anger and frustration. Things do not go our way. Thinking we made the right choice. Follow the right path which God wants us to be on. But it still looks as though bad things happen to nice people. God placed something on my heart to share. Please be patience to follow through this letter. I believe God will move those who are willing to open up to Him and receive. How many of you out there have cheat on a test? You wanted to get a good grade. So you found away to steal a look at the teacher's answers for the test. So you memorized all the answers. But you still had to take the "test". Test are given to find out if you know the answers. Such as building character in us. God guides each of us through His Word. The answers to life's problems are in the Bible. We need to read and study those answers. God designs test or trails for each of us to see if we know the answers. Boy do we hate that. We hate test and pain and suffering. But if we did not have test. How would know if we new the answers? How would God know what you are made of ? 1Peter 1:6 In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while(short time? God is not geared to time. He is a God of waiting. Waiting on us to bring us to become like Christ.), if need be, you have been grieved by various trails.(Of course those trails are heavy. What about the time Jesus prayed in the garden. Sweats of blood were coming out of Him. Because he was grieved) vs.7 that genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, whom having not seen you love. To find out if you faith is genuine. You must be put into the fire. So you can bring praise, honor, and glory to God. 2Peter1:5 But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge self-control, to self- control perseverance, to perseverance, godliness to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. Another way to put that verse together. +to your faith>virtue>knowledge>self-control>perseverance>godliness>kindness>love The bad thing about all this. You can not keep storing into your head. It must be in your heart. It must flow through you to reach others for God. To build character there must be test. Read Romans 5:1-5 BUT WE ALSO GLORY IN TRIBULATIONS, KNOWING THAT TRIBULATION PRODUCES PERSEVERANCE; CHARACTER; AND CHARACTER, HOPE. Can we cherish those tribulations when they come? When we know that when we come through the furance. We will have "perseverance, character, and hope. The title of the sent e-mail from the brother was "life sucks". But when we look at life through the eyes of Christ. Realize that we are to live in a fallen world. That in order to get through life and meet Christ in heaven. We must study the answers which are in the Bible. Which prepares us for trails to test our faith and character. servant of the Most High God, rick/eagle feather ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] _______ To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe rangernet" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Eat the hay & spit out the sticks!" RTKB&G4JC! Autoresponder: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://rangernet.org
