I want to be that one that is found thanking Him for the healing he has done in my life. I thank Him for the difficult circumstances because He protects me so that I am not consumed... He has only given me what I can handle. I thank Him for this opportunity to learn how to trust in Him because these trials are producing fruit in my life. This is only a season and I praise Him because He is faithful.
I like The Message's version of Phil. 3:7-11
"The very credentials these people are waving around as something special, I'm tearing up and throwing out with the trash—along with everything else I used to take credit for. And why? Because of Christ. Yes, all the things I once thought were so important are gone from my life. Compared to the high privilege of knowing Christ Jesus as my Master, firsthand, everything I once thought I had going for me is insignificant—dog dung. I've dumped it all in the trash so that I could embrace Christ and be embraced by him. I didn't want some petty, inferior brand of righteousness that comes from keeping a list of rules when I could get the robust kind that comes from trusting Christ—God's righteousness.
I gave up all that inferior stuff so I could know Christ personally, experience his resurrection power, be a partner in his suffering, and go all the way with him to death itself. If there was any way to get in on the resurrection from" the dead, I wanted to do it.
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