THE MORE THEY MULTIPLIED....

by Matthew Njenga on Wednesday, 7 December 2011 at 23:13

But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel Exodus 1:12
I read a story of recent of the response of a potato, an egg, and coffee beans. When a potato boils in water, it gets softened up but leaves little or no effect on the water around it. And the same goes for the egg, when it boils in the water, the inside hardens up, the shell remains the same and leaves no effect on the water around it. But not so with the coffee beans; the more heat it gets, the more it changes the colour of the water around it to look like itself and fills the air with its aroma.
The water represents the situation around us or wherever the heat comes through to us. The key difference among the three is the strength; the ability to withstand heat and how it uses heat to change its environment.
Are you a potato, an egg, or coffee beans? Some people are like eggs with a soft inside that gets hardened up on the inside, become cold, cynical, withdrawn, and sometimes grow very mean, become tougher, and then they blame their bad experiences and circumstances of their life for their coldness.
Some are like the potato, which look tough and strong before the heat, but in no time due to trying situations, get weakened, softened up, and begin to run about and around like weaklings; sometimes they lay back and are unwilling to advance or try anything new because of fear.
But a believer in Christ is a man/woman of love and strength. He/She is like a coffee bean that influences his environment using the heat from it.
Beloved you are like an inflated ball; the harder you bounce it against a rock, the higher it goes. You are getting a raise from the afflictions brought your way in Jesus Name.
The Lord is your strength and it doesn’t matter what you’re going through; the persecutions, opposition, troubles that may come from the environment around you, but you are not breaking because of the living Word within you. The same troubles, afflictions, are what you need to change the environment around you, emitting the fragrance of His grace and knowledge. We glory in tribulation, we use persecutions; the trial of our faith is more precious than gold.
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: 1 Peter 1:7
The bible says count it all joy (James 1:2). What you call trouble is what the heavens call training and open doors. Whatever comes your way, you are winning thru it in Christ Jesus Name. Remain strong in the Lord.