{"id":1098,"date":"2015-09-18T20:21:43","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T01:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/belovedlove.org\/reflections\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2015-09-18T20:21:43","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T01:21:43","slug":"consider-it-all-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belovedlove.org\/reflections\/2015\/09\/18\/consider-it-all-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"Consider It All Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"9:18:15<\/a>by Lydia Floren<\/p>\n

Being a doctor, I see many advantages to being cared for by a physician who has lived a few years (well more than a few, but who\u2019s counting \u263a). \u00a0We \u201colder\u201d docs have personal experience with bad knees, dimming vision, pneumonia, colitis, hemorrhoids. \u00a0I know, I know. TMI.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t say I like being sick, or having surgery – nothing makes one appreciate good health like infirmity. \u00a0But because I have \u201cbeen there,\u201d I can better help my patients through their difficulties.<\/p>\n

When I live through – not just observe – an illness, I have a much better understanding of it. \u00a0For someone like me, this is particularly good news. \u00a0My \u201cempathy\u201d gene is not particularly dominant: \u00a0experiencing pain unmasks its expression.<\/p>\n

Like Paul, we can \u201cconsider it all joy\u201d when we go through hard times. \u00a0Not only will God strengthen us and guide us through it, He will use it to help someone else.<\/p>\n

Difficulties open our hearts to compassion.<\/strong><\/p>\n

With God, no experience is wasted.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, <\/em>to those who are called according to His purpose.<\/em>\u00a0 Romans 8:28 NASB<\/span><\/p>\n

Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials.<\/em>\u00a0 James 1:2<\/p>\n

Thou has enlarged me when I was in distress.<\/em>\u00a0 Psalm 4:1 KJV<\/p>\n

\u201cBe set free not from suffering but rather through suffering.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 -George Matheson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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