Those who are God's and those who aren't

Psa 6:6  I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

The pangs of living.

We started to talk yesterday about these pangs of living.  There are many of them. Who among us hasn't suffered them?  No one  has a perfect life, not one of us. The richest or the poorest each of us suffer. We might think that a rich man has less suffering, and it's true. They have less suffering in things of material comfort. But their money cannot give them emotional, mental, or spiritual comfort. Many of us, in fact most of us would say we don't care we'd rather have emotional, mental and spiritual discomfort as long as we can do it living richly. Why do we say that? We say that because we are in our own emotional, mental, and spiritual discomfort and we are poor, or close to it and it seems as if we have the worse of both worlds, but we don't know if that's true do we? We can't, not really. Sure, some people may have been rich and known pain as a rich person and then become poor and know it that way and prefer the riches. This is most likely true in some instances, but we know for a fact our Savior talks of being rich in material ways as not being good or desirable, that in fact it makes it harder to get to heaven being rich.

Mat_19:24  And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

These pangs of living exist for EVERYONE. No one is exempt.  We might be shocked to realize that the poorness of another worse off than we are can be much more rich in their emotional, mental, and spiritual lives and feel way less of the pangs of living than we feel.

While we whine and cry over our poorness we might be ignoring things so much more important.  In fact there is a very good chance all our pangs of living are geared to overwhelm us, to bring us to despair, yet we know this for truth--

Rom_8:28  And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Yet the opposite is true as well, right? 

All things work together for bad to them that do not love God.

We know that the pangs of life affect us all - those who are God's and those who aren't. 

Sometimes though it seems as though those who are 'bad' and do not love God have an easier life, right?  That's because Satan will often tempt us with the richness of godlessness.  That richness Satan tempted Christ with, but Christ would have none of it and we too should have none of it because it's a lie meant to steal eternity from us for a heartbeat of a life with sinful pleasure.

More tomorrow by the grace of our LORD and SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD FOREVER AND EVER, AMEN!