I've noticed while going through this aging process that what older people said about their bodies is now what I am seeing too.
Not only that but also the weakness and inability to care for ourselves using the youth we were born with is no longer something that can be depended on like before. This reality also came crashing into my awareness while working in the Memory Care unit here in NY.
The ability to make money and save money for retirement-- not enough years to do that now. All these I've discovered are real issues but issues I could do nothing about from my own strength anymore. Family relationships having been all but ripped apart and gone, I found myself totally a lone without support on each and every level of life and sustanance from a human standpoint. (my dependance for years was always on self and people) What I feared most came upon me.
The Family/money/retirement/insurance/home/job issues came crashing down on me and I had to come to grips with them or die trying. Thankfully I was in process of learning how Jesus was going to take care of me in my individual and unique situation.
These same exact issues in life may never come to some Christians here who have not divorced and have not come from broken families., but they come to some of us and we have to find a way to survive. Just as your unique situations have helped to teach and define you., mine have helped to teach and define me. And thank God He gave us all the same answer IN Jesus.
What happens when we are not naturally smart? I read about UnderGrace and her son and her family the way they have the ability to study and do research. UnderGrace loves to research and study she seems to thrive on it. I read about Angela and her family interactions and the many others who usually post on cc. There is a small window into the lives of people here that they are not alone and they have gifts.
It took a long time for me to come to grips with my own life that turned out much differently than I had planned and invested in for many years. Just like a major sickness and loss I lost all hope and ability. But Jesus came into my situation and made a way of escape.
The reason I post about healing is because it's the same exact formula for how to be secure and confident here on earth and into eternity for everything else we need. All these needs are met and found in the atonement of Christ. Jesus is our righteousness., Jesus is our Healer., Jesus is our Wisdom., Jesus is our Strength., Jesus is our Sanctification., Jesus is our Health., Jesus is all things to us.
I've discovered that when I'm without strength I say "Jesus is my Strength" and He IS. This is by faith that ONLY He can meet this need. And this is not a "one time claim" This is a daily claim among other claims I make about Jesus.
This is not to say I've never been ripped off by people finanically or emotionally., but I know that Jesus is my Wisdom and I'll learn to be wise as I go through these issues in life that the world....the flesh....the devil bring to me. These tribulations and trials come daily and each day the formula for victory is the same... JESUS.
And He is faithful through the process. The Holy Spirit works inside to teach and guide into all truth. Will we have 100% truth today? No., But He gives what we need and we keep going back for more each day. In this way., we can DARE to step out in faith knowing we will not be devoured by the world...the flesh and the devil as we take HUGE chances stepping out in faith.
Although people may lie to us., or steal from us., Jesus gives us back much more than we lost because our dependance isn't on the money or the blessings but on the BLESS-OR.
I've discovered through this process of the Holy Spirit and faith that Jesus always makes a way of escape and always takes care of me. Each day comes in and brings trials and tribulations but Jesus delivers me from them all. Seriously.
So as each one of us goes through our own individual tribulations and trials coming from the world... the flesh....the devil., Jesus is the WAY the TRUTH and the LIFE. In all areas ALL things pertaining to life and Godliness. He gives us. It's a promise we need to know and stand on and claim by faith. 2 Pet.1:3
[SUP]2 [/SUP]May grace (God’s favor) and peace (which is [SUP][
a][/SUP]perfect well-being, all necessary good, all spiritual prosperity, and [SUP][
b][/SUP]freedom from fears and agitating passions and moral conflicts) be multiplied to you in [the full, personal, [SUP][
c][/SUP]precise, and correct] knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
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3 [/SUP]For His divine power has bestowed upon us all things that [are requisite and suited] to life and godliness, through the [[SUP][
d][/SUP]full, personal] knowledge of Him Who called us by
and to His own glory and excellence (virtue).
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4 [/SUP]By means of these He has bestowed on us His precious and exceedingly great promises, so that through them you may escape [by flight] from the moral decay (rottenness and corruption) that is in the world because of covetousness (lust and greed), and become sharers (partakers) of the divine nature.