An artist named Jael posted to Instagram today
[07-07, 1:11 a.m.] Melody: Led me to study Jael tonight
[07-07, 1:18 a.m.] Melody: Also read to the part about that battle's connection to Armageddon, in the link at the end
[07-07, 1:21 a.m.] Melody: Reminded me of this, for you and Kenny:
[07-07, 1:21 a.m.] Melody: https://www.jw.org/finder?srcid=jwlshare&wtlocale=E&prefer=lang&docid=1102016838
[07-07, 1:23 a.m.] Melody: The worst day of one's life does come
[07-07, 1:25 a.m.] Melody: 1 Peter 5:10 points this out:
"But after you have suffered a little while, the God of all undeserved kindness... will *himself* finish your training. He will make you firm, he will make you strong, he will firmly ground you."
[07-07, 1:25 a.m.] Melody: In the part with the "..." It includes saying, "...who called you to his everlasting glory in union with Christ"
[07-07, 1:26 a.m.] Melody: It is easy for us to say and remember the words that Jehovah is with us. But this scripture can remind us of some points on that
[07-07, 1:29 a.m.] Melody: 1) It tells us not only that he will be there for you in your trials but one way how:
"He himself will *finish your training.*"
He will train you. And as a result, you will grow, and with Jehovah's training he will make you more capable than before, and more strong than before.
This is distinct from his miracles. He does answer our prayers and he does make what must happen, happen. But you will not be as lost as you might have ever been before once his hand in the matter has done it's work.
He affects not only your situation, but who you are. Your strength, qualities, and discernment, and other skills.
[07-07, 1:35 a.m.] Melody: 2) "He *himself* will finish your training."
He does not even delegate this to Jesus.
Jehovah himself does this.
We could have a variety of emotional reactions to this thought. But no matter how we feel about it, it is the choice of the God of all *undeserved kindness* who has decided it is his will to train you himself, not matter what you feel about yourself in a given moment.
[07-07, 1:37 a.m.] Melody: 3) "He himself will *finish* your training."
This does imply that he does not step in and take over to force you to do everything right every step of the way.
But even so, the training you need will be completed, not only covered partially or somehow left ambiguous. Jehovah himself will make sure of it.
[07-07, 1:46 a.m.] Melody: And that is an English word, so to help strengthen a sense of what Jehovah Promises to do:
• καταρτίσει (katartizó) - "adjust down" - to complete thoroughly, i.e. repair or adjust
{literally or figuratively}; fit, frame, mend, restore.
• στηρίξει (stērixei) - "fix firmly", perfect, establish, strengthen - also used in 2 Thess 3:3
• σθενώσει (sthenoó) - "to strenghen", from sthenos, meaning "bodily vigor" ;
"4599 sthenóō(from sthenos, "strength") – properly, make strong so as to be mobile – i.e. able to move in a way that achieves something in the most effective way." -HELPS Word-studies
Sources:
• Kingdom Interlinear Translation
• https://biblehub.com/greek/2675.htm
• https://biblehub.com/greek/ste_rixei_4741.htm
• https://biblehub.com/greek/4599.htm
[07-07, 1:53 a.m.] Melody: Brings to mind from there, 2 Corinthians 4:8-10
"We are hard-pressed in every way, but not cramped beyond movement; we are perplexed, but not absolutely with no way out; 9 we are persecuted, but not abandoned; we are knocked down, but not destroyed. 10 Always we endure in our body the death-dealing treatment that Jesus suffered, that the life of Jesus may also be made manifest in our body"
[07-07, 1:54 a.m.] Melody: There is reason for optimism, no mat
ter how hard things maybe get in times of our lives
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