By Tammie Croft
Life has been full of battles . From the time I was old enough to remember until now , I have endured one problem after the other . There has been one traumatic issue and then another . Before I received the Lord into my life as my Savior , I had endured rejection by my earthly father , molestation as a child , and I was stricken with epilepsy .
By the time I was a teenager , I had to learn to accept a new father and the rejection of my mother . As a young adult and newly saved Christian , I married and lost the man of my dreams through divorce , was nearly killed in an awful car accident , was left to raise my two children alone and battled severe panic attacks for years . After all this and so much more , I came to the knowledge that as long as I had been in this world the
Self Induced Sorrow or Spiritual Battle ?
devil had set out to stop me from being saved , then he had set out to stop my purpose , and now I continue to battle him .
1 Peter 4 : 12-13 says this : “ Beloved , think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you , as though some strange thing happened unto you : But rejoice , inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ ’ s sufferings ; that , when his glory shall be revealed , ye may be glad also with exceeding joy .”
It is so hard for us to see the good in our suffering when we are in such travail , but it is unreasonable for us to feel that we should not have to endure pain when Jesus came and suffered the way that he did .
God never intended for us to be in pain or suffer .
3 John 1:2 says : “ Beloved , I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health , even as thy soul prospereth .”
When one reads this scripture after enduring so much pain in life , it is easy to doubt that God intended it for them . Right after my conversion , I went through so much including the wreck that paralyzed me and almost left me dead , that I seriously believed that God was trying to kill me . That sounds ridiculous I know , but when you live with so much pain and have no understanding