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Thought for Today:

IT'S YOUR PEARL!


When something irritates you, how do you handle it?
Do you take it personal?
Do you stay in peace?
Do you take action?
Do you speak up?
Do you sit down?
Do you feel overwhelmed?
Or do you feel like you can overcome it?

When an irritation like a foreign substance gets inside an oyster, it produces a secretion. After months the secretion hardens and evolves into a pearl. Man dives dangerously in the deep seas seeking pearls. They are valuable sought after treasures. People actually pay for this "irritation"
that evolved into a pearl. When an irritation gets inside your spirit and life, you can either allow it to eat you up and develop ulcers, hypertension, back ache, head ache, stomach ache, heart ache or you can gain a pearl of wisdom from the experience. You can develop a new insight,
faith and a life lesson from your setbacks and pain. This pearl of great price that you've gained was once an irritation, an unwelcome intrusion into your life but now you see it differently. You come out of the depths of the
sea of despair, depression and discouragement. You can come out of the dark pool of water and rise to the surface and see the light. It's your pearl.
Turn your pain into pearls. --by Jewel Diamond Taylor


"We are assured and know that [God being a partner in their labor] all
things work together and are [fitting into a plan] for good to and for those
who love God and are called according to [His] design and purpose. For
those whom He foreknew [of whom He was aware and loved beforehand], He also
destined from the beginning [foreordaining them] to be molded into the image
of His Son [and share inwardly His likeness], that He might become the
firstborn among many brethren. And those whom He thus foreordained, He also
called; and those whom He called, He also justified (acquitted, made
righteous, putting them into right standing with Himself). And those whom He
justified, He also glorified [raising them to a heavenly dignity and
condition or state of being]. What then shall we say to [all] this? If God
is for us, who [can be] against us? [Who can be our foe, if God is on our
side?] He who did not withhold or spare [even] His own Son but gave Him up
for us all, will He not also with Him freely and graciously give us all
[other] things? Who shall bring any charge against God's elect [when it is]
God Who justifies [that is, Who puts us in right relation to Himself? Who
shall come forward and accuse or impeach those whom God has chosen? Will
God, Who acquits us?] Who is there to condemn [us]? Will Christ Jesus (the
Messiah), Who died, or rather Who was raised from the dead, Who is at the
right hand of God actually pleading as He intercedes for us? Who shall ever
separate us from Christ's love? Shall suffering and affliction and
tribulation? Or calamity and distress? Or persecution or hunger or
destitution or peril or sword?
36Even as it is written, For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long;
we are regarded and counted as sheep for the slaughter. Yet amid all these
things we are more than conquerors and gain a surpassing victory through Him
Who loved us. For I am persuaded beyond doubt (am sure) that neither death
nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor things impending and
threatening nor things to come, nor powers, Nor height nor depth, nor
anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of
God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8:28-39 AMP