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Gratitude in Affliction
Genuine praise can't be manufactured. It comes from thanking God in both the sorrows and the joys.
We typically express gratitude for God’s blessings, but what about thanking Him in the middle of something that doesn’t feel like a blessing at all? That’s hard to do, isn’t it? And yet the writer of Psalm 119 does exactly that, offering praise to God from the middle of genuine suffering.
What makes this possible isn’t denial or forced positivity. It’s a settled confidence in who God is. (See Ephesians 5:20.) When we trust that He is good and that His purposes run deeper than our present circumstances, we begin to find something unexpected in our trials—not just endurance but the kind of formation that only difficulty can produce (v. 71). Keep reading......
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