Good morning. God bless you. This is Jeremiah Johnson with Good News in the Morning, and I just want to greet you today, and I want to remind you that God loves you and that the cross was an absolute success, and God is for you. God's on your team. God's on your side. All the good stuff, man. All the good stuff. I hope you had a great Christmas. I know that this will air the day after Christmas on December 26th. And I hope that you did have a good Christmas. And I just want to encourage you, you know, regardless of how your Christmas went, whether it was amazing or whether it was challenging or whatever. I know that sometimes in the holidays, man, there can be like this pressure for everything to be good and everything to be happy. And I understand that. And it's so important in these moments to begin to see things from an eternal perspective. You know, for me, like this is going to be the second year that, where I don't have my, my mom is not on earth during Christmas. And so I know that that is, it's been a, you know, a challenge, you know, it's a, it's a different world on the other side of your mother, you know, passing. And of course, you know, you guys have heard me share testimony of all the stuff that me and my mom went through and, and a lot of challenges and stuff like that. But, you know, I love my mom, you know, and I know that she's healthy and strong and happy in heaven. But it's another Christmas without her. And so for many of you, I know that Christmas can be difficult and hard. And for some people and for other people, it's not. It's just this absolute joyous thing. But I just, regardless of whether it was absolutely awesome or if it was a challenge. I just want you to understand that to look at things from an eternal perspective and And from just a heavenly perspective, because everything, you know, that happens down here, it's finite, man. It's short term, you know, and whatever you're going through, it has the ability to work for you a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. Whatever challenges you're facing, whatever you got going on in your life, if you're having a hard time or, you know, or you're going through challenges, just remember like this life isn't the only life. There is another life, and there is a life that is coming that death will no longer have dominion over. You know, death is the last enemy to bow its knee. Death will be swallowed up in mortality. And with death being swallowed up, it's, you know, all the ramifications of death, aging and sickness and lack and, you know, all these things, you know, it's not going to last forever, you know. And eventually God will establish his kingdom and it will be completely established and we'll have a king and we won't deal with any type of lack or poverty or not enough or, sickness or disease or separation or death any longer. And the Bible says that he'll dry every tear and that we'll live in this eternal state of joy and love and purpose. And so whatever you're going through down here, and we have, man, we have challenges. I mean, we do and understand that. But I think that if you can develop a mindset of this and to understand that your greatest opportunities of growth are in times of adversity. If we can develop that mindset, it's not an automatic mindset. It's something you have to develop. But if we can look at that, even our struggling times, that God will be with us in the valley. God will be with us in those times of struggle. And if we draw near to him, he'll teach us how to overcome. But the key is not to be offended at God. That's a huge thing. It's not God's fault when bad things happen. He's just not like that. He's not a God that is in partnership with death and destruction and misery and pain and evil. He's just not. Jesus said, pray that God's will be done on earth as it is in heaven. In heaven, God's will is being perfectly done. There's no death. There's no poverty. There's no lack. There's no sickness. There'
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