Grief Can Temper the Soul
As long as hope is not lost.
Most people are not equipped to minister to the broken hearted, at least not yet.
Before we experience loss and it’s particular form of grief, it is most common to believe that people become effective in ministry by taking courses, reading books, getting diplomas and using their God-given natural strengths and skills.
Instead, when it comes to raising up future comforters it appears God uses our weaknesses over strengths because only empty vessels are fillable.
When we both grieve loss and hope one day to be restored it does something to our souls similar to tempering steal. The end result is to be transformed into someone less focused on self and more focused on others, especially those who may be suffering in similar ways.
So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited.
Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”
Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
#Dailydialoguewithdorisradioshow says this was a great post!! Maybe because we are SOOO familiar with grief!!😥😥😥