When your Enemy is your Friend.....

Nobody likes to be accused of things they have not done. Nobody likes to be betrayed by someone whom they considered a friend. Nobody likes to be hurt by a family member whom they are suppose to be able to trust.
If you fall into any of these categories then this message might be for you.

This is out of a devotional book called 'The word for you today' and that is all I know about it however, I thought it was another worth passing on message....

So this is for all of you out there who have been hurt, betrayed and abused.

When your enemy is your friend...

There's no pain like betrayal and none of us are exempt.The Psalmist laminated " My best friend, the one I trusted...has turned against me" Ps.41:9 NLT . The truth is, God allows certain people into our lives to facilitate His purposes- even ones like Judas whom Jesus called 'Friend' and said," Do what you came for." Before Jesus was betrayed He told all the disciples, 'I know whom I have chosen...that scripture my be fulfilled.", " He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me." Jn 13:18 NKJV .
He could have fulfilled His destiny without John the beloved disciple, or impetuous Peter who was always ready to defend him, but it was Judas' kiss of betrayal that ushered Him into His destiny.

So you can't always avoid getting hurt, however; God can give you the grace to reevaluate the situation and realize that the person you thought was your enemy, was a friend in disguise. God will never permit His plans for us to be sabotaged by somebody else's actions. When you're under His shield of protection He will allow your Judas to go only so far and no further. As a child of God His purposes govern how much damage others can do to you. Once you understand that, it lessens the fear that stems from getting involved again when you have been burned.

The Psalmist said: "It was good for me to be afflicted, so that I might learn your decrees." Ps 119:71 NIV. God Loves to turn our negatives into positives and while none of us enjoys suffering, it takes us to levels of understanding that, left to our own devices we would never reach.


So I hope this little devotional blessed you like it did me....
Love & Prayers,
Judy

Good Morning All....

Well I have been forced to take a rest... because I have been sick. Icky, yucky sick.
Yeah I did all the right things.. took my supplements, herbs and teas etc... but none the less this has been a hard fight to get well.

Do you all believe in the chem-trail phenomena? Well if you do then I have to say I think that is what got me this time. I was outside working in the yard all weekend under fake clouded skies watching that junk pour out of planes right before I got sick. My husband got sick as well and several others in our area with the same yucky thing. All respiratory related... sore throat etc. My daughters allergies ramped up and my grandsons ears started giving him heck.
I am having a very hard time not believing all that junk in the sky did not have something to do with how sick I have been.

I have not been able to go to work or sit with Hospice patients for over a week... what a bummer!!!
But I am on the mend! Still sound like a frog and hacking like I have a 3 pack a day smoking habit (no I do not smoke!) but I am on the mend none the less.

So I was forced into a rest..however it was not at all very restful. But it did give me pause for thought during this forced down time.

In the worst of my illness when in the dark of the wee hours of the morning... I found myself sitting in a chair trying to breath and maybe snooze a little, however; snoozing did not happen and coughing was ripping at my chest and throat and my body felt as if all my bones had been broken, all the while I was praying... "GOD please either heal me or take me out of here!!!" I do not do sick very well at all!!! I am a whiny baby and I have no tolerance for feeling bad.
I have spent way too much time on this planet in pain...fighting to live and fighting to survive..so when I get sick I get angry and whiny. I hate to admit that but it is the truth.

Lately I have found myself getting mad at God a lot... always asking 'Why?' Why all the challenges? Why do I have to fight all the time? Why is my life always going from one challenge to another without a break?

I hear myself crying out to my God in pain and frustration and often in anger and disappointment.
GOD can I not at least have one thing go easy for me? I am trying to serve you... I am trying...

So I gripe and I whine and I rant and when I am through all I have left to say is... 'Father I do not know how not to believe in you. I do not know how to give up. I do not know how to quit believing that you have a plan for my life and this whole crazy planet. I do not know how to not keep loving you and trusting you even when I do not feel you and even when I do not understand.'

So that is my word for today...

In spite of everything... I do not know how to not believe... Thank the Lord He put that kind of faith inside of me... what a gift! And to think He loves me in spite of all my complaints and frustrations.

Guess what? He loves you too!