11 I also realized something else here on earth that is senseless: The fast runner does not always win the race. The strong army does not always win the battle. The wise man does not always have food. The smart man does not always become wealthy. And the man with special skills does not always receive praise. Bad things happen to everyone.
12 A person never knows what will happen to him next. He is like a fish caught in a cruel net. He is like a bird caught in a trap. In the same way, a person is trapped by bad things that suddenly happen to him. Ecclesiastes 9:11-12
You know the truth.
“Life is not a bed of roses.”
Who thought it ever could be?
Roses have thorns, sharp skin piercing thorns.
Life has trouble. Some of little consequence: a sliver in a finger.
Some trouble pierces us to the core: death, inoperable cancer, betrayal by a close friend.
There are days of trouble.
Worse, weeks of trouble; we dread years of trouble.
Life; no bed of roses.
Truth, roses have many thorns.
Find the solution in the rose, not the thorns.
Jesus took all the troubles from our sins.
Our thorns…defeated.
His eternal peace…
our everlasting rose.
33 “I told you these things so that you can have peace in me.… In this world youwillhavetrouble. But be brave! I have defeated the world!” John 16:33
