Valuable lessons

From Day 47 of Grief Bites, A New Approach

There are many valuable lessons you can learn through your heartaches and trials, as well as many treasures gleaned. Lessons and treasures learned through grief are gifts in disguise that teach you to live a fuller and more purposeful life. The deeper you dig into God's word and heart, the more hidden treasure is to be found.

The ultimate treasure gained through grief is learning how to better love, understand, and enjoy God.

Grief genuinely changes all who have deeply experienced it...those who walk through their grief with God will no longer be content with allowing relationships, opportunities, lessons or life to be mediocre or wasted.

Life and your relationship with God takes on a whole new meaning and the desire to live life in a new fullness transpires.

Grief and life challenges are truly a refining experience. You never know what you truly think and believe until you're faced with a test of faith or life challenge. When loss comes into your life, it turns your world upside down and can challenge everything you think and know.

Walk with God through the hard times, allowing only Him to refine your viewpoints. Emotions cannot be trusted. You will find a true treasure--the treasure of greater depths of conviction and faith when you trust God during times of grief and life challenges.

Finding the heart of God through grief, as you allow Him to refine your heart, always brings great praise, glory, and honor to Christ.

Verse:
1 Peter 1:6-7: In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ.