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Wednesday April 30^th, 1 Peter 1: 6 In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 7 These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. It always seems that it is the darkest times of our lives that we are closer to Christ, and it is the good times that we seem further away.  Perhaps it is not the good life that is the blessing, but rather the adversities, where we have little to depend upon other than Jesus, that are the blessing from God.  This is not to say that God gives us the hard times, but rather, when the world gives us hard times, it is there we often find our hearts and souls open to the love of God rather than the false promise of pulling ourselves up by the bootstraps.  I find when the going gets good, the people get going, fishing, to the cabin, to sports, anywhere but church.  May your life result in Praise, Glory and Honor of Christ, whatever it takes.  I even hope and pray you get to enjoy your cabin, fishing and sports in addition to the love of God.  But if there is a choice…………. just think about it.