"For Our Protection"

"Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD; for He shall pluck my feet out of the net." (Psalms 25:15) How do I put this, without offending someone; because I know that there is a whole lot of people out there that say they believe in His protection over them, yet they walk around as if He does not care what they are going through. I am totally amazed by the number of 'Bible Believing' saints, that for whatever reason, as soon as they enter into a trial, they are having a pity-party for the whole church to witness. This is not how we are to respond when we are hit with a trial! Am I trying to say that I don't react in the same way? I honestly try not to, because I believe the Bible tells us not to; but we are to "Count It All Joy" when we suffer any form of trial or tribulation (James 1:2). Let me tell you what that word "count" actually means, because I think we think sometimes it means that we look for joy, or try to find something to be happy and joyful over; not exactly what James is talking about, because it actually means to be a leader or to have rule over, as in to have authority over that and say that it is so! In other words, it is a choice that we make, as to whether or not we are going to count it all joy, or if we are going to put on the long face and try to seek comfort from others. The main point to what James is saying, is that we are to judge any type of trial or tribulation as something we can rejoice in, because we know that God is working endurance into our lives and giving us more reliance upon Him. As for the verse we are looking at today, it is my understanding from the many years of walking with the Lord, that where we put our focus has much to do with where our joy actually comes from; and in this case, David says, "Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD", which means that he has his focus upon God and not upon the things which he might be suffer in. This is vitally important to how we view any trial, tribulation, or persecution, because the second part of this verse makes reference to a "net", which means a trap; precisely what happens to us when we are not a leader when it comes to making joy the choice for any affliction; the devil gets to rejoice, and the body of Christ is stricken. Someone needs to tell a whole lot of people that they need to rejoice, because there are way to many whiners in the body of Christ... "Cast your bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth. If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be. He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all." (Ecclesiastes 11:1-5)