In The Midst
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Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve my life. Psalm 138:7 Walk in the midst of trouble. God didn't say that He would spare us from all trouble and that life would be easy after we were born again. To be in the midst of something means to be in the middle or center of it. Basically, right in the thick of it. God isn't telling us He will get us out of the trouble we see ourselves in, which could be a variety of things. The trouble we go through can be caused by us, by others around us, or by circumstances beyond our control, but whatever the cause, it has to go through the hand of God to get to us. In addition to the Hebrew word for midst meaning in the middle or center, it also means through. God is telling us that we have to go through it. No going around it, or stopping it before we get there, but though it...
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