When God blesses you, get ready for the complainers who think He should have blessed them instead\u2014or at least as much as you. When a dispute arose about the position of the high priest, God told Moses to have each candidate write his name on his staff and place it overnight in the tabernacle. Then God said, \u2018The man I have chosen\u2026 buds will grow on his rod! Then at last this murmuring and complaining against you will stop!\u2019<\/i> (Numbers\u00a017:5\u00a0TLB) Imagine an old stick with no roots or sap blossoming in the dark! <\/p>\n
The truth is, faith can\u2019t grow without hardship; it must incubate in the darkness of adversity. There is a stage at which you don\u2019t even know you have been chosen by God; only He<\/i> knows. He told Jeremiah, \u2018Before I shaped you in the womb, I knew all about you.\u2019<\/i> Before you were a beep on a monitor, God had plans for you. The reason you didn\u2019t die on the operating table or in that car accident is because God had His hand on you. Furthermore, He didn\u2019t choose you because you\u2019re so virtuous and wonderful. No, \u2018He chose what the world thinks is unimportant\u2026 so that no one can brag.\u2019<\/i> (1 Corinthians 1:28\u201329\u00a0NCV) <\/p>\n
When God created the heavens and the earth, the Bible says, \u2018Darkness covered the face of the deep.\u2019<\/i> (Genesis\u00a01:2\u00a0NRSV) Then God spoke and said, \u2018Let there be lights\u2026 And it was so.\u2019<\/i> (Genesis 1:14\u201315\u00a0NIV) And today God can bring light out of your darkness and hope out of your despair. He is not intimidated by the darkness\u2014it\u2019s where He does some of His best work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When God blesses you, get ready for the complainers who think He should have blessed them instead\u2014or at least as much as you. When a dispute arose about the position of the high priest, God told Moses to have each candidate write his name on his staff and place it overnight in the tabernacle. Then […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}