Competition

Dear Lord please be with us today and may the things that we try to do work out alright and for the best. Please be with the sad people who are suffering loss and grief. Life is competitive all through the Lords world from the smallest of the Lord's creatures all the way into the world of men, women, and children, who must do the best they can to live in the society that they find themselves. Competition seems to make the strong stronger and the weak weaker which seems to be contrary to finding happiness for the weak. Maybe this is not the whole story, maybe the fact that the desire to overcome adversity is made stronger in people who have been beaten down during competition. Maybe these same people will have added sympathy and empathy for the poor and needy people of the world, and maybe this is a part of God's eternal plan for His creation to find His Kingdom. Please Dear Lord guide us and protect us, in Jesus Christ's name we pray, amen.

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Ps 119:71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Joh 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
1Pe 4:13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.