Never Ever Have a Bad Day

So I didn't go to the devotional where this talk was given but I just read through it and I tell you what, it's one of my favorites. Sad, sad story about the dog but totally awesome meaning behind it. Brief synopses goes like this: the poor dog went out in the street and got hit by a car. He ended up with a cracked skull and his eyeball out of his head. A family friend took the dog out and shot his five times in the head and neck and then they buried him. Turns out the dog survived the entire ordeal and then goes home to his family. yeah. that happened. But even though it was a cool story and all, the best part was the rest of the talk. The best part of it being when he talked about Peter and Christ. Peter's name of course means rock but he was called rock because of what he would become not what he already was. It wasn't until after Peter had his "abomination of desolation" that he was really the Rock. Only after those hard times was he able to understand who he was. After I read this I truly understood the meaning behind us being, “willing to submit to all things which the Lord saw fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father.” And how that relates to “rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.”