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President Lincoln said this: “My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”

What happens when life just leads us to places we don’t like?

In considering the journey of Christ’s birth, I often wonder if Mary or Joseph had doubts as they experienced those months leading up to Jesus’ arrival.

Takeaway for Today:
If God is my greatest treasure, then what makes something good is whether it brings me closer to God.

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1> Grieve it

“Our culture routinely interprets losses as alien invasions that interrupt our normal lives. We numb our pain through denial, blaming, rationalizations, addiction, and avoidance. We search for spiritual shortcuts around our wounds… Sadly the result of denying and minimizing our wounds over many years is that we become less and less human, empty Christian shells with painted smiley faces.”
- Peter Scazerro (Emotionally Healthy Spirituality)

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2> Release it

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3> Obey His Word

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4> Worship Him in Gratitude

Are you able to look at your struggles through a different lens? Not the lens of “God, don’t you care?” But the lens of “God - I don’t know what you are up to but I will praise you in the storm and see how you will lead me through.” This is how we GROW. This is how we look at what life deals us, make it into a beautiful song of Praise to our God!

Would you like to explore a PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS in your life? Please reach out to one of our staff pastors:
Pastor Terry: terry@flushingcommunity.org
Pastor Steve: pastorsteveclose@yahoo.com
Pastor Mike: mike@flushingcommunity.org
Pastor Troy: troy@flushingcommunity.org
Pastor Kelli: kelli@flushingcommunity.org ON MATURNITY LEAVE

BENEDICTION:
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. (Ephesians 3:20-21 NIV)