GEMS FOR YOUR DOWN MOMENTS

A Publication Of STEADFAST LOVE MINISTRIES EDITION 5

THE GLOOM AND THE BLOOM

I used to wonder why life presents us with so many difficult circumstances that we are almost choked up and drowned in our problems.

Why Is There So Much Darkness In This Life?

If there is a God why does he allow it?

As time passed by, the questions changed as my understanding deepened and as I came to know Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Saviour.

Since there is a god, why does he allow so much problems and troubles to befall his people?

If the problems and storms of this life were limited to just those that do not acknowledge His presence; then I would reason that maybe they are just being punished for their insubordination; but How Do I Explain The Fact That Bad Things Happen To Good People ?

The fact that darkness seems to be prevailing in the lives of the people of the light.

But then the eyes of my understanding received an enlightening:the Lord opened my eyes to see and my heart to understand that
We will take for granted the bloom of light if we had not known the gloom of darkness.

Although now we are besieged on all sides by so many troubles and pains but that does not mean the father loves us less or that he has abandoned us.

I've come to understand that he knows our frame and exactly what it takes for us to get to where he is taking us. The fact that it is all Gloom now is only preparing us for A Life Of Bloom. The darkness that is seemingly prevailing over us presently will not actually prevail, it will make us appreciate the light better.

Do not lose focus , Keep the faith, The Gloom Of the Darkness Will be Replaced very soon By the Bloom Of The Light.

Poetic Gems

HERE COMES THE BLOOM

When besieged by life's storms

Darkness looms

And all you can see

Is gloom


When faced with life's troubles

You are rattled

Is this all there is?

You are baffled


When surrounded by darkness

And you can't see beyond the gloom

Hold on! The light at the corner looms

Here comes the bloom


The Gloom

Precedes the Bloom

Not that you may be doomed

But that you may treasure his BOOM


Precious Gems

GOD'S DAWN OF DELIVERANCE OFTEN COMES WHEN THE HOUR OF TRIAL IS DARKEST

- Haddon W. Robbinson

Perfect Gems

For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

Psalm 30:5 K.J.V

PRAYER FOR YOU

Father, grant the reader strength and grace to hold on to your love even in the midst of the darkness of lack, despair, discouragement etc. And Lord, usher in the bloom of Your light and chase the gloom away... [In Jesus' Name, Amen]

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