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A Crowned Thorn

What is the value of a thorn in our Christian journey? First, we must identify what a thorn is. According to the Dictionary one definition describes a thorn as “a source of continual annoyance or trouble”. A thorn can cause an immediate pain from its puncture or it can cause constant irritation and distress. Thorns that appear as a source of trouble are usually not welcomed companions on our daily quest. But the thorns we encounter are useful despite their irritations and disruptions. Thorns come to challenge and to strengthen your faith, your character, and your witness as a child of God. Thorns are the mechanism from which you gain more than you lose. Thorns are the pathway to reaching higher heights and deeper depths of sanctification and glory. With each thorn that attaches itself to your life, you become more and more like Christ. You become an overcomer of the thing that came to irritate or to disrupt your growth, but it, in turn, propels you into greater achievement in holy livi...
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What's On The Other Side Of This Pain?

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When you gave your heart and your commitment to the Lord you didn't really know what you were signing up for. What you come to realize over time is that once you gave God your yes you became a soldier  in Gods army. 

A soldier that had to learn how and what your weapons are and how to use them, who your enemy is, and how to trust in the plan and oversight of the general. In essence you had to and continue to learn how to fight and to win over the battles and hardships of life.

God in his living manuscript guides His children with instructions and reminds them that they are more than conquerors and have been indued with power from on high. In other words, despite the pain, despite the uncharted territories, despite the physical ailments God instructs and equips His soldiers to seek and to find what's on the other side of the pain, on the other side of the hardship, on the other side of the experience because He knows what's waiting for them on the other side is victory.

What victory though? Can this victory be obtained without so much pain? God does not allow His soldiers to face anything He hasn't equipped them to handle and to win but we as His soldiers have to come to learn and have faith in ourselves as soldiers. We must come to know and stand on the truth that no matter the obstacle, hurt, and pain that we are powerful. We are empowered and filled with greatness to face and to endure until we get to the other side.

There is a glory of riches and victory waiting on the other side of our pain if we as His soldiers are willing to fight to obtain it. Fight to see the gifts and growth for God already knows that we can endure and win but He wants us to know it too.

So press on soldier. You can make it and your victory awaits!

Journal Entry: Lord, I don't have the faith in me that you do to win and to continue to endure. I'm so sick of the pain. Help me to hold on long enough to see what you know is waiting for me to see, experience, and to become on the other side of this pain.

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