Corey Says

My aunt Sharon quoted this from Corey Jones. I don't know Cory personally but the statement was so insightful for me this morning that I thought I'd share it.


If God won't change the situation allow Him to change you in the situation. In the end this change might be the bigger miracle and the greater evidence of God's power. It was true of the three Hebrew children who went through the fire, Daniel who spent the night with lions, Joseph who went through captivity and enslavement in Egypt, and Paul who went through suffering and imprisonment. God didn't spare His own or deliver them from the trial but rather transformed them as they trusted Him through it. God didn't even spare His own Son who went through suffering, humiliation, and crucifixion. It seems that God's way and God's desire is to display through our lives that He is able to bring us through and raise us up from the midst of the struggle rather than deliver us from it, revealing to everyone that our God is the God who raises the dead!

"We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about the troubles we experienced in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead."--(2 Corinthians 1:8, 9)