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\"05-21-16<\/a><\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0 Prodigal, It does not look like you are in a good spot right now.\u00a0 In fact you look like your about to get a hurtin.<\/p>\n

Prodigal:\u00a0 I KNOW, I NEED HELP!<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0 Hold on\u00a0I am coming to help you in your affliction.<\/p>\n

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This is from Malcolm Muggeridge<\/p>\n

Contrary to what might be expected, I look back on experiences that at the time seemed especially desolating and painful with particular satisfaction.\u00a0 Indeed, I can say with complete truthfulness that everything I have learned in my seventy-five years in this world, everything that has truly enhanced and enlightened my existence, has been through affliction and not through happiness.\u00a0 In other words, if it ever were to be possible to eliminate from our earthly existence by means of some drug or other medical mumbo jumbo….the result would not be to make life delectable, but to make it too banal and trivial to be endurable.\u00a0 This, of course, is what the Cross signifies.\u00a0 And it is the Cross, more than anything else, that has called me inexorably to Christ.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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It seems at this time this affliction just keeps given you hurt.\u00a0 Why would Christ lead to the way of something that hurts you?\u00a0 Because he is stretching you and building you up in a way that you need to be stretched.\u00a0 Emotionally and Spiritually, Christ is teaching you\u00a0new skills.\u00a0 This is the same as when you train in a\u00a0sport and have a new exercise.\u00a0 It hurts your\u00a0muscle’s at first and you are sore afterward physically.\u00a0 Well spiritually you are hurting but your trust muscles\u00a0in Christ are growing!\u00a0\u00a0You cannot understand this all today so\u00a0maybe you just decided to hang in there and not give up and not run from God.<\/p>\n

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Acts 5:14<\/p>\n

And more than ever believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n

www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n

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