It Will Be Worth It All When We See Jesus

There is a song that goes something like this
          "It Will Be Worth It All When We See Jesus"

When I think about my walk with the Lord over the years:
--I think of how the Lord has blessed me and my family many times.
--I can think of miraculous things the Lord has done in my life.
--I can think of prayers that have been answered and times that were so special  that I can’t explain the joy I experienced.

It has been quite an emotional experience also and some of it has been very hard.

I think walking with the Lord can be sort of like a merry go round, sometimes you feel like you are up and everything is going great and other times you feel like you are down and you don’t know if you will ever get back up again.  Depending on your situation and your circumstances your emotions seem to be out of control.
Many people are controlled by their emotions so their faith and their Christian walk seem to be controlled by the way they feel at any given time.

The Word says that we will have problems even tribulations and even be persecuted, there will be tests and trials. Jesus never promised it would be easy, in fact He said He didn’t come to bring peace but a sword and the members of one’s family would be against each other.

How should we respond when we are faced with all kinds of disappointments, troubles, temptations, tests and trials? James 1: verses 2 - 4 says, "My brethren count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations (which means various trials). Knowing this that the trying of your faith worketh or develops patience. But let patience have her perfect work that ye may be perfect and entire wanting nothing which means being complete, mature and finished lacking nothing." Our problem is too many times we see trials or tests as a hindrance, but God sees them as a learning tool. No matter what we experience (temptations, tribulation, tests or problems or trials) if we have the right attitude we can learn and grow from them.

There are three ways we can handle these things:
1. We can despise them by getting bitter angry and resentful and live a secluded life
2. We can faint under them by just giving up and throwing in the towel, so to speak, and just drop out of the faith completely.
3. We can learn from them by allowing God to teach us and to have His perfect will accomplished in our lives, we have the choice.

Or we could commit all these things to God knowing that He works all things out together for our good if we love Him and allow Him to.  In the end we will know that it was worth it all.

There was a man in the Bible that experienced more problems and trials and temptations and was also tested more than we may ever have to face and he never gave up.

Can anyone guess who I am talking about? Remember Job and what he went through?

Job was quite a remarkable man, a real man of faith and a man that loved and honored and feared God.  Job was very rich and influential and he was very faithful to God.  God had blessed him and his family abundantly and put a hedge of protection around him and all he owned.  The Bible says he was blameless and upright and he feared God.

Let’s read about his two tests that the Lord allowed him to go through and how he responded to them and what he learned and how God blessed him in the end.
Turn to Job chapter 1 and chapter 2
Now let’s read about how God blessed him. Job 42: 1 – 6.

I think when it was all said and done Job could say that it was worth it all.

So whatever a believer is facing today it isn’t a shock or surprise to God, He knows all about it.  So whatever it is God is allowing you to face it is for a good reason.  The Bible says, "all things work together for good to those who love God to those who are the called according to his purpose."  There isn’t a Christian alive that doesn’t have to carry his "cross."  A cross always represents pain and a cross can represent many kinds of things. It’s not what the cross represents that counts, it is how you carry the cross that counts. When Job carried his cross he did it with praise and thanksgiving. I don’t know anyone outside of the Lord himself that has faced any more than Job did.

It may be good to use Job’s example when we face trials and tribulations. Just like Jesus and Job and many others overcame their situations, the Lord will be faithful to help us overcome ours. Praise God! Remember, in the end it will be worth it all.

Think of the words of the chorus of this song:
"It will be worth it all when we see Jesus our problems will seem so small when we see Christ. One look at His dear face all sorrows will be erased so come and run the race till we see Christ."

Look this song up on the computer and sing it and I think it will encourage you, at least I hope it will. Praise God!