OVERCOMING SOUR TROUBLE

Tues. May 22
 John 16:25-33

" In this world you will have Trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world"
(John 16:33b)

Overcoming Sour Trouble
written by: Derl G Keefer
(District Superintendent,
Wisconsin District Church
of the Nazarene)

 My father loved country western music. As a truck driver he was up very early in the morning getting ready for work. Dad cranked  up the volume on his record player. In the little cracker box house the sound vibrated throughout every corner, including my bedroom. Pulling the covers over my head I thought I could drown out the sound. Wrong! Country singers "twanged" their nasal songs as the sound snaked under my covers. One of those songs was a Harlen Howard  classic published in 1959 with Ray Price belting out the lyrics to a tune titled, "Heartaches by the number." It was about a love gone sour.


There are a lot of heartaches in this life. Some have to do with love gone sour, others about losing a loved one, jobs. broken relationships, disillusioned dreams, and more. Satan uses emotion, experiences, and emptiness to destroy our relationship with each other and with God. On the other hand, God's love never goes sour. Jesus flatly said that there would be heartache and trouble, but the one constant is him. He has come to shoulder the loss or load with us.


Let Jesus help you overcome the disappointments in life.


Afflictions color your life, but you choose the color

 (John Maxwell)