{"id":590,"date":"2012-03-09T11:29:13","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T16:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etheriedge.wordpress.com\/?p=590"},"modified":"2020-10-05T09:52:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T13:52:54","slug":"receiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/09\/receiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Receiving"},"content":{"rendered":"

How are you at receiving … gifts, compliments, criticism, assistance, forgiveness, blessings, love? Sometimes it so hard for me. I’d much rather give. My mom is having lots of trouble receiving help. I totally get it,\u00a0I feel like our family has been on the receiving end far too long. It’s a blessing, but it’s humbling.<\/p>\n

When it’s coming straight from God, I have an easier time. His\u00a0gifts <\/em>are always good,<\/em> right? But what about things that are hard to fit into the\u00a0blessing<\/em> category?…unpleasant things, unwanted things, unhappy things? Are they not\u00a0gifts<\/em> also? Does God not use these? And send them too?<\/p>\n

But Job replied to his wife, \u201cYou talk like a foolish woman. Should we accept only good things from the hand of God and never anything bad?\u201d So in all this, Job said nothing wrong.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Job 2:10
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Sometimes my perception is off, as surely as God says,\u00a0My<\/strong>\u00a0ways are not your ways<\/strong><\/em>. It is for Him to decide what crosses my path and for me, to accep<\/em>t it from His hand…\u00a0trusting<\/em> that nothing is going to touch me that has not first been carefully sifted through His fingers.<\/p>\n

For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.<\/strong><\/em> Colossians 3:3\u00a0<\/p>\n

Think of the layers circumstances go through before getting to us.\u00a0God is never unjust or cruel in allowing difficult circumstances near. I am hidden<\/em> even as He uses the unusual in my life. His creativity knows no bounds!<\/p>\n

“And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to His purpose for them.” <\/em><\/strong>Romans 8:28<\/p>\n

So I gladly will receive the good… and wade through the seeming bad<\/em>, expectantly hoping to see just what He will bring. Curiously waiting for what He will do. Remembering what He has already done.<\/p>\n

ForGlorySake!<\/strong> -Anna<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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