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This week, Ebony Adams was a guest blogger at the Black Love is Beautiful Blogspot and these are her thoughts on being Stripped and Restored through God.

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Iwas listening to Bishop Eddie Long one night and his sermon spoke to mein a way that touched me. In his sermon, he used the example of afather taking something away from his child, something that the childloved very much. However, the child only loved it so much because hewasn't aware of the fact that there was something even better than whathe had out there waiting for him in life. The child was unaware that hehad higher blessings waiting for him in the Kingdom of God. Therefore,the child cried, and became sad because he lost something that hethought was good.

In the eyes of the father, he had taken awaythe "toy" the child had, in order to give his son a shiny, new bike.Bishop Eddie Long used this example of the toy to illustrate how Godoften does us. We cry and pray and have the nerve to get very upsetover life's trials, and then when things are taken away from us,whether it be a man, woman, family member, material things, or a job,we feel as if God has taken something very valuable from us and we arehurt. In all honesty, it usually is something or someone that we haveput a lot of worth into and means a lot to us. It could be a personthat we think we can not live without. However, if we were to allowourselves to step out of the box for a minute and think along the linesthat ‘God has NEVER taken anything or anyone out of my life and notgiven them something even better’ we would be better off in the end.

Afterlosing someone from our lives, it is a very emotional time and we arestill emotionally attached to that person and feel that they are stillwith us in spirit. Your loved one may have seemed to have left you now,which is devastating, but if you allow him to God will change things inyou to prepare you for the changed man/woman you're praying about.Then, he will make that person an even better person than you everimagined them to be!

The same goes for jobs. I lost a job thatI truly thought was the best job ever and I thought I would keep thatjob for years. The job was in my field, it was nearby, it paid well,and I loved going to work everyday. But when God all of a sudden tookthat job from me, I was so hurt that I cried. My husband did his bestto encourage me, but I honestly didn't even want to work in my fieldanymore. It was GOD that stepped in and showed me that I had been onthat job for the time he intended me to be there, but it was time forme to get an even better job, and do even bigger things.

Thepoint I'm trying to stress here is that God will never take anythingaway from you without giving you something ten times better than whatyou had, so rejoice in trials, rejoice in tribulations, and justrejoice to be rejoicing. If you know like I know, then you know God hasa plan bigger than anything we could ever conceive.

Be blessed in the Lord family!

Ebony Adams is an inspirational blogger at Ebony’s Intricate Mind.She currently works in information technology and is an aspiringauthor. Visit her on the web at http://ebonysintricatemind.blogspot.com/

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