People love clichés.
A well-placed cliché makes conversations, speeches and even sermons more interesting. One very popular cliché used when people have misfortune is or difficulty is, “When life gives you lemons make lemonade”.
BUT WHAT IF YOU DON’T HAVE ANY SUGAR?
What if you have a health condition that doesn’t allow you to have sugar?
Sometimes in life we have to faith our way through some difficult days…
Sometimes we have to take some medicine that just doesn’t taste good…
Sometimes you have to swallow a really big pill that’s hard to get down…
Some people can’t have sugar in their diet…
Sometimes your healing comes from something bitter.
AREN’T YOU GLAD THAT JESUS DIDN’T MAKE LEMONADE ON THE CROSS?
2 Timothy 2:3 tells us to endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 12:2 teaches us to look to Jesus, who endured the cross for the joy that was set before Him.
People love quoting Philippians 4:13, “I can do all things through Christ Jesus who strengthens me” when they are trying to make their dreams come true, but this verse is most powerful when we are enduring life’s most difficult situations.
God wants us to always be able to make something good out of difficult situations, and to always see His will in them. As good soldiers of Jesus Christ, sometimes there’s nothing to make some situations feel ‘or taste’ better.
We just have to faith our way through and learn to sometimes drink lemonade without sugar.
Psalm 3:19 (ESV)
BE BLESSTIFIED!
BE BLESSTIFIED! 
Very good, Minister. “this verse is most powerful when we are enduring life’s most difficult situations.” Many people claim to want to be like Jesus; however, they are almost always thinking of the “power” very seldom the “suffering.” You are so right, one must learn to take the lemonade without sugar.
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Thanks my friend! Go God be the Glory. BE BLESSTIFIED:-) Oh yes, you can call me Al:-)
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Be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might (Ephesians 6:10).
Ephesians 6:10 is the first verse that was given me when my sore trial had only begun. Not knowing what it said I had to look it up and I kept this verse with me every day praying for the Lord to strengthen me and help me make it through the day whatever it may hold. Every mountain became as a plain and I saw the road, the highway, of Christ’s likeness built upon it. If we are to see the Lord’s power at work in us it will be seen more clearly through the dark or stormy times. I have to say that the last year was a time of trembling faith yet, though things were shaking, I bless God, my Beloved Lord Jesus, for being the solid Rock on which I stood. In one year I’ve learned more of our most holy God than in the 25 years of Christian life before it. \o/
If we must drink the bitter we know we will have the sweetness of the Lord’s strength to endure it.
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The last two years were challenging for us too Sherry, but God sustained and grew us. We can feel things turning around now. Thanks so much for sharing. Now more than ever the joy of the LORD is my strength and in His presence is the FULLNESS of joy and peace.
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Attention-grabbing title and great life principle!
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Absolutely:-) God bless you my brother!
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