LIFE'S BITTER CUPS
by Lewis E. Thomas

LIFE'S BITTER CUPS
 
Sometimes life is good, sometimes life is bad!
Sometimes it makes us happy and sometimes it make us sad!
 
Sometimes life lets us soar like an Eagle up high!
Sometimes life brings us crashing down and makes us cry!
 
Life is full of trouble and things beyond our control!
Life is a trial and a test of the soul!
 
I'm reminded of a young man at my local church as I write this rhyme!
He had gotten married, was blessed with three children and life was great and going fine!
 
One Sunday our Pastor called this couple to the front to honor them for their good deeds!
But just a few days later, life brought this poor husband to his knees!
 
His precious wife died from a stroke followed by complications unknown!
Now he has "three" young toddlers to raise all alone!
 
Lord, reach down from Heaven and gently hold this precious man up!
As he drinks from one of life's BITTER CUPS!
 
The reason we suffer in life goes back to Genesis and to Adam and Eve!
When the Serpent/Satan lied and deceived!
 
When life hits you hard and does you wrong!
"Lean on God" and He will give you a Victory Song!
 
 
Lewis E. Thomas
As given by God on 4/14/2018
 
This poem in loving memory of Alexis Victoria Overstreet.
Alexis's husband is Ryan Overstreet.
 
Alexis was born on April 29, 1992
She passed away after complications following a stroke on April 12, 2018
She was a member of Generations Church in Tallahassee, Florida.
She was very active in women's and children's church ministries!
 
She was loved by all and will be greatly missed!
She fought a good fight, she finished the race, she kept the faith!
Alexis is walking with Jesus now on those Streets of Gold!
 
 
Job 14:1
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
 
2 Chronicles 15:4
But when they in their trouble did turn into the Lord God of Israel and sought Him, He was found of them.
 

1 Peter 4:12-13

12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:

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.

 
Proverbs 27:1
Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring.
 
Acts 14:22
Confirming the souls of the deciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
 
 
 
James 4:14
Whereas ye know not what shall be on tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away. 
 

2 Tim 4:7-8

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:

Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

 
 


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