I don't want to talk out loud about the "tribulations" I am currently going through, but to say that I can see how they ARE VALUABLE 2 Corinthians 4:17 "For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;"

Update 1/11/2024 you all will go through "much tribulation" to follow jesus! Acts 14:22
"Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God." It is what it is. 

  What I've learned try and make the best of everyday - basically what everyone does!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

my hair is like 2 tones right now but I am about to fix that, maybe later tonight. So that it is all blonde again 😁 And then later this week, I'm entirelly changing up my hairstyle, because this ponytail pulls to much on my head...............my hair is thinning, when you have thinned out hair, you don't want tight pulled greately type hairstyles. 

(My latest painting, surfing the "trending" of tumblr one day - bored - came across a painting of a light bulb super real, so I decided that was the thing to paint next a light bulb - course mine isn't super real, my "style" seeped out on this piece, but I like it : )

I don't want to talk out loud about the "tribulations" I am currently going through, but to say that I can see how they ARE VALUABLE 2 Corinthians 4:17 "For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;" (I view tribulation and affiction as basically the same thing, pretty sure it's the same thing bible says............Acts 14:22 "Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God." affliction and tribulation wait maybe I go look that up in the dictionary both is grief causing stuffs.............pretty sure near identical definition to those two words ---------- though I guess maybe affliction is something that you feel and maybe isn't indicative of something happening to you in that event then I'm talking about tribulation but it's also affliction to me at the same time - double whammy!) I don't know what sort of tribulation you'd go through that you wouldn't be afflicted???????????????????? I quote myself from this post http://givingittogod.blogspot.com/2011/05/i-pray-for-smiths-friends.html 

you got beaten it's disturbing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  There is a tribulation in particular that has been exceedingly pressing upon my soul recently (that I completely don't want to talk about) what I'd like to say is ----------

it is light

2 Corinthians 4:17 "For our light affliction.............."

It's not only light it's immensely RIDICULOUSLY...........".......................which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory"

  If you all heard what this "affliction" is it's actually so light you all might bust out laughing at me..............you might chuckle and be like "that's it" "that's whats weighing on your soul big time?"

 ----------------------- Though it's weighing on my soul big time, I'm weary by now, oh I've prayed about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 It is in reality light, and it will only last for a moment......here's the whole bit of verses.............
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 "For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal."

  I hope for this blog post to not be um depressing or whatever, but like undepressing, our afflictions are light and but for a moment (..............if the word of god says our afflictions are light they must be light, there must be a point where god would end a life if a disease advanced to far --------------  I choose to trust god and His word) We all will be put through "tribulations" much tribulations the bible says Acts 14:22 it's for a reason, it's for a purpose,".........worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory" I mean to be encouraging basically. 

  Stuffs can work together for our good in many ways Romans 8:28 "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose."

  If something bad were to happen to any of us, you could realize the staff at the hospitals care, people around me care..................that is some potentially working together for the good. 

  If your homeless and someone gives you a meal, the praise to god you could have in your heart potentially IS A FANTASTICALLY GOOD THING! 

  There's many things that could happen to us following jesus that could work together for our good according the bible "all things work together for good to them that love god"

ALL THINGS!

Hope you all have a great week earth! 

LOVE

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