"His Way is Perfect"

Sometimes I feel as though my heart is broken into a million pieces. I feel as though the devil has grabbed hold of my heart, tore it out of me, chewed it, spit it back out, and then put it back into my soul. It is then that I have to come before the Lord, and ask Him to heal my broken heart; give my heart to Him knowing He will fix it, and fill me up again with His wonderful love and joy, and that peace that passes all understanding. Then, from then on, I must remember and try hard to not get discouraged, or down, knowing that the devil likes when that happens, cause it is another chance for him to do that same terrible thing he did to me before. I must resist the devil, knowing he will flee from me if I do, and draw nigh to God, knowing that when I do, He will draw nigh to me! (James 4:7-8). There are some things I don't understand why God allows to happen, but the one thing I do know, is that His way is perfect, and will always work for His honor and glory... And I must give Him the glory, honor and praise no matter what. These are the words to a song that pretty much sums it up for me. I love this song, and it is pretty much how I feel (the whole way through). It is from the Wilds book... I hope it encourages you like it has me.

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This is James 4, which I memorized a couple years back. I don't know if I would be able to say it straight through for memory for you right now, but I could do some. Anyways, this is the chapter with the verses I mentioned above, and the whole chapter is really good, so I looked it up on Christ notes, and it was good. It can be found here: http://www.christnotes.org/bible.php?q=James+4&ver=kjv

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Friendship with the World:

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1. From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2. Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 4. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. 5. Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? 6. But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. 7. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. 9. Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. 10. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

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Judging a Brother:

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11. Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. 12. There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?

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Boast Not of Tomorrow:

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13. Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: 14. Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. 15. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. 16. But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. 17. Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.