The world says you should always be happy. Seek your happiness. But this is not the Christian's reality! God allows sadness in the lives of his children to develop our faith! We are proven! Perfected! Even if we don't notice...
God has the ability to turn what is bad into something good for our growth!
2 Corinthians 7
1 Now, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
2 Receive us into your hearts; We hurt no one, we corrupted no one, we took advantage of no one.
3 I do not say this to condemn you; for I have said before that you are in our hearts to die and live together.
4 Great is the boldness of my speech towards you, and great is my boasting concerning you; I am full of consolation; overflow of joy in all our tribulations.
5 For even when we came to Macedonia, our flesh had no rest; we were afflicted before in everything: fights outside, fears inside.
6 But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus.
7 And not only by his coming, but also by the consolation with which he was comforted by you, telling us of your longing, your weeping, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced greatly.
8 For though I grieved you with my letter, I do not regret it, although I already regretted it when I saw that that letter grieved you, even for a little while.
9 Now I rejoice, not because you were made sorrowful, but because you were made sorrowful unto repentance; for you were grieved according to God; so that for us you suffered no harm in anything.
10 For godly sorrow works repentance unto salvation, which no man repents of; but the sorrow of the world works death.
11 For how much care produced this in you who, according to God, were grieved! what apology, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what revenge! In everything you have shown yourselves to be pure in this matter.
12 Therefore, although I wrote to you, it was not because of him who did the wrong, nor because of him who was wronged, but that your great care for us might be manifested before God.
13 Therefore we were comforted by your consolation, and we rejoiced much more in the joy of Titus, because his spirit was recreated by you all.
14 For if I boasted of you in anything to him, I was not ashamed; but as we told you everything in truth, our glorying in Titus was also found true.
15 And his tender affection toward you is more abundant, remembering the obedience of all of you, and how you received him with fear and trembling.
16 I am glad that I can trust in you in everything.
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