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LINCOLN'S TESTIMONY-LUKE 24:26**********

ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS A BACKWOODS-MAN WHO ROSE FROM HUMBLE BEGINNINGS TO THE HEIGHTS OF POLITICAL POWER. DURING THE DARK DAYS OF THE US CIVIL WAR, HE SERVED AS A COMPASSIONATE AND RESOLUTE PRESIDENT.

DEPRESSION AND MENTAL PAIN WERE HIS FREQUENT COMPANIONS. YET THE TERRIBLE EMOTIONAL SUFFERING HE ENDURED DROVE HIM TO RECEIVE JESUS CHRIST BY
FAITH.

LINCOLN TOLD A CROWD IN HIS HOME-TOWN IN ILLINOIS: "WHEN I LEFT SPRINGFIELD, I ASKED THE PEOPLE TO PRAY FOR ME; I WAS NOT A CHRISTIAN, WHEN I BURIED MY SON, THE SEVEREST TRIAL OF MY LIFE, I WAS NOT A CHRISTIAN. BUT WHEN I SAW THE GRAVES OF THOUSANDS OF OUR SOLDIERS, I THEN AND THERE CONSECRATED MYSELF TO CHRIST. I DO LOVE JESUS."

LIFE'S MOST PAINFUL TRAGEDIES CAN BRING US TO A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF THE SAVIOR. LUKE 24:26-27 TELL US, WHEN TWO MEN WALKED THE ROAD TO EMMAUS, THEY WERE DUMBFOUNDED BY THE SENSELESS MURDER OF JESUS OF NAZARETH.

THEN A STRANGER JOINED THEM AND GAVE
SCRIPTURAL INSIGHT ABOUT THE SUFFERING MESSIAH. THE STRANGER WAS JESUS HIMSELF, AND HIS MINISTRY TO THEM BROUGHT COMFORT.

HEARTACHE HAS A WAY OF POINTING US TO THE LORD JESUS WHO HAS SHARED IN OUR SUFFERINGS AND CAN BRING MEANING TO SEEMINGLY SENSELESS PAIN.

THOUGH TRAGEDY, HEARTACHE, AND SORROW ABOUND
AND MANY A HARDSHIP IN LIFE WILL BE FOUND,
JUST PUT ALL YOUR TRUST IN THE SAVIOR OF LIGHT,
FOR HE CAN BRING HOPE IN THE DARKEST OF NIGHT.

SUFFERING CAN TEACH US WHAT WE CAN'T LEARN IN ANY OTHER WAY. GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND I HOPE TO SEE YOU NEXT TIME.

HAVE A HAPPY, BLESSED DAY*************
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