“Every cloud has a silver lining.”
People share this phrase with others in other to
encourage others to look at the bright side of every bad situation.
James writes that we should rejoice during hard
times:
"My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
"Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
"But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. "(James 1: 2-4)
"Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
"But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. "(James 1: 2-4)
Paul also tells us to rejoice in suffering:
(Romans 5: 1-5)
(Romans 5: 1-5)
That any afflictions we endure are nothing compared
to the glory that will be revealed in us.
For the world, their hope in that silver lining is faint. For the believer, Christ in us is our hope of glory (Colossians 1: 27). For the believer, Jesus Christ is our Sun of
righteousness:
"But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
"And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts." (Malachi 4: 2-3)
Indeed, Jesus brings to us healing and victory, for in Him we are more than conquerors (Romans 8: 37)
While the world waits for the sun to shine again, we have His love forever shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit living within us (Romans 5: 5)
And this love has already been proven to us, not something that we have to wait for:
"Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins." (1 John 4: 10)
and
"And we have known and believed the love that God has to us. God is love; and he that dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him. " (1 John 4: 16)
"But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
"And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts." (Malachi 4: 2-3)
Indeed, Jesus brings to us healing and victory, for in Him we are more than conquerors (Romans 8: 37)
While the world waits for the sun to shine again, we have His love forever shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit living within us (Romans 5: 5)
And this love has already been proven to us, not something that we have to wait for:
"Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins." (1 John 4: 10)
and
"And we have known and believed the love that God has to us. God is love; and he that dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him. " (1 John 4: 16)
He is always shining, reigning over all, seated at
the right hand of the Father, and we are in Him:
"Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." (Romans 8: 12)
and
"Ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:" (Ephesians 5: 8)
The Son shines in us, and therefore we have better than a silver lining, even when it's cloudy!
"Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." (Romans 8: 12)
and
"Ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:" (Ephesians 5: 8)
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