The Choice is Yours

The choice is yours:
Recently I had a friend who knows what I am going through ask me if things took a turn for the better. Very confused by the question, my response was "no, why?". And he said because your posts of Facebook have been good, so I assumed things were good. That is the moment I realized the "choices" I am making in the midst of a raging storm in my life may be pointing people to God, not away from Him. I too have friends on Facebook that I know have gone through huge storms...like the loss of a husband, and another, the loss of a daughter.(without their permission I don't want to mention names) and I see some of the amazing posts they write or forward. See, the choice is ours. We can have a bad attitude toward life and give the enemy a victory over us that he does not deserve, or we can realize and choose to see that even when something bad happens, our God is good! I choose to FIND the good, no matter how bad the situation. I have not always been this way, but looking back I know that God began to prepare me for this about 8 months before my 'storm' hit. And the biggest difference in me was I LET Him prepare me. (He will if you let Him) At the time I did not know He was preparing me for a storm, but He did. I thank Him daily for breaking me, for showing me the sin in my life and teaching me to be disgusted by it. He opened my eyes, which opened my heart, which changed my mind. Are things good right now, no. Is God good right now, YES! And I will CHOOSE to praise Him in the storm.
Philippians 4:8 teaches us what to put our focus on...and says "if anything is worthy of praise, think on such things". Well my God is worthy of praise no matter what is going on....and praise He will get from me.
Thank you God for the good in my life. Romans 12:21 says "Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good". Through Christ this I CAN and WILL do!