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THE THORN.

THE THORN
A thorn is a sharp protective spine of a plant. It is also that which pricks or annoys anything troublesome. Everyone has a thorn. A thorn is something that limits. A thorn can be likened to hardship, persecutions and difficulties. A woman once said while teaching, challenges are meant for us humans and not animals; so we must face it hoping in GOD. If you remember the parable of the sower, Mark 4 vs 7: And some fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it and it yielded no fruit. The sower planted and it felled among thorns, but was choked. That is what a thorn does, it chokes, and it leads to unfruitfulness. Despite hard labor by the sower, the thorn causes no harvest and nothing to show forth. Job faced his own thorn, he was weakened and down because of the 
hardship, yet he believed GOD. The bible says hope in GOD is not ashamed. He came out of his thorn hoping in GOD. We are to recognize our limitations and thorns and turn to GOD for help. Only GOD can help us and deliver us from thorns. We must rely totally on GOD, for we can’t come out of our thorn by our strength. The bible says I can do all things through CHRIST that strengthens me.
                   Moreover, Paul said in 2 Corinthian’s 12 vs. 7: I will say this; because these experience I had were so tremendous, GOD was afraid I might be puffed up by them, so I was given a physical condition which has been a thorn in my flesh, a messenger from Satan to hurt and bother me and prick my pride. Vs. 8-9: Three different times I begged GOD to make me well again, each time he said, “No. But I am with you, that is all you need. My power shows up best in weak people”. Now I am glad to boast about how weak I am, I am glad to be a living demonstration of CHRIST’s power, instead of showing off my own power and abilities. Then he said in vs. 10: Since I know it is all for CHRIST’s good, I am quite happy about “the thorn”, and about insults and hardships, persecutions and difficulties, for when I am weak, then I am strong, the less I have; the more I depend on him. We are to be like Paul, he was happy about his thorns, hardships, persecution and difficulties; because he knew he has a GOD that is capable of making him strong. Thorns weaken him, but with GOD he is strong. GOD knows about any thorns you are facing, he knew about Job’s thorns, he knew about Paul’s, he was with them and that was all they needed. He told Paul “My power shows up best in weak people”. Paul declared he was a living demonstration of CHRIST’s power instead of his own power. Only GOD’s power can deliver you out of thorns, your abilities cannot. Job was righteous, yet he faced his thorns; the bible said many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all…It is well with us…

                    

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