When problems arise what do you do? 1 John 4:4

Good morning all. God is good all the time, all the time God is good.  TOO BLESSED TO BE STRESSED!  Jesu Jevu!

  When adversity comes and greets you how do you react?  A father was greeted by his child who was upset and in tears. The father listened and then told the child sit here for a moment I want to show you something.

   He took 3 pots of water, planning to bring them to 212 degrees aka boiling point.  In one pot he put hard potatoes, another an egg, and in the third coffee beans.  He let them boil and then after 20-30 minutes turned the heat off.

  Then the potatoes, the eggs and coffee beans had each faced the same adversity-the boiling water. However, each one reacted differently. The potato went in strong, hard and unrelenting, but in boiling water, it became soft and weak. The egg was fragile, with the thin outer shell protecting its liquid interior until it was put in the boiling water. Then the inside of the egg became hard. However, the ground coffee beans were unique. After they were exposed to the boiling water, they changed the water and created something new.

   Now is saying this, I ask that you examine yourself and see how your react.

Look at this and see what it means:

                                   HE>I

  Isaiah 55: 8-9  For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

   Job 26:14 Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways, and how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?

   Psalm 147:5 Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure. 

   Deuteronomy 10:17 For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and does not take a bribe.

   1 John 4: ^{4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.}

   Remember:
                                   HE>I

Greater is the He who is in you than the one who is in the world.  When you experience adversities or struggles of life WHAT WILL YOU DO?  Give it all to God, make coffee and create something new. Love you all. Thank you for reading.

Soli Deo Gloria

Johnny