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Trouble!

A man once told me that you step out of your door in the morning, and you are already in trouble. The only question is are you on top of that trouble or not?

EASY RAWLINS
(Devil in A Blue Dress)
Job agrees with Rawlin's first part :
Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble. (Job 14:1)
And he offers a better response to the challenge:
I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God; I myself will see him with my own eyes—I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me! (Job 19:25-27)
Art is always great at diagnosing the problem but always comes short of solutions. The Bible expertly gives us both!

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