These things I have spoken unto you, that in Me ye might have peace. In
the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the
world. John 16:33
My family drove a ways to visit some relatives. On the trip,
we stopped and one ordered a root beer float and the other a root beer freeze.
I took a few big sips out of my husband’s root beer freeze and remembered how
good they tasted. On the return trip, they wanted to stop there again. One of
the family members said they were treating us all to root beer floats, this
time.
I figured that I had to get it. I couldn’t offend the
treating relative, could I??? After drinking half of it, it really weighed on
my mind. I looked into the cup and although it tasted good, I knew that all
that ice cream wasn’t good for me because I’m hypoglycemic.
We had a long drive home and I wondered what I was going to
do. Trying to being open to being prayerful about this, because there’s a part
of me that really would have liked to drink the rest of it, I asked God in
prayer. The thought in my mind was that even if I’ve made a poor choice, I can
still throw the rest away. I wasn’t exactly sure how I was going to accomplish
this, but the idea popped into my mind (which is often how God works in my
life) to give the rest to one of the other passengers, which worked.
It’s not great that I drank half of it, but God showed me
that it’s much better that I got rid of the rest than to drink it all. These
things I have spoken unto you, that in Me ye might have peace. In the world ye
shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. John
16:33
Since I am applying these Bible Verses to my life, it may not convey the whole meaning of the verses. Debbie
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