Flip-side
Curious, I picked up the gray rock with the smooth, round surface on one side and flat on the other. Nothing seemed special about the dull rock, until I turned it over exposing the inside filled with beautiful, dazzling purple crystals. The flip-side changed the dull into beauty.
There���s always a flip-side.
The devil wants us to focus on the negative, what we don���t have so we will not be satisfied with what we do have. Satan also wants us to focus on what we have ��� an illness, the loss, the trials, the difficulties — to keep us from any satisfaction. He never wants us to look at the other side and see how God is working.
God loves His children and ���all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.���* The hard-rock life, changes to beauty in the hands of The Rock.
Ask God to reveal the flip-side, to show you how He is working, to reveal the beauty now and the beauty to come. Rejoice, take heart, there is always a flip-side.
���I heard a voice thunder from the Throne: ���Look! Look! God has moved into the neighborhood, making his home with men and women! They���re his people, he���s their God. He���ll wipe every tear from their eyes. Death is gone for good���tears gone, crying gone, pain gone���all the first order of things gone.��� The Enthroned continued, ���Look! I���m making everything new…��� ~ Revelation 21:4-5 (MSG)
���I love you, God���you make me strong. God is bedrock under my feet, the castle in which I live, my rescuing knight. My God���the high crag where I run for dear life, hiding behind the boulders, safe in the granite hideout. I sing to God, the Praise-Lofty, and find myself safe and saved.��� ~ Psalm 18:1-3 (MSG)
From, We Were Meant for Paradise by Lisa Buffaloe, https://amzn.to/3h0WpzQ
https://lisabuffaloe.com
