There is no pit so deep, either within you, or around you, that it can stop the ear of God when he inclines to listen. Be thy pit ever so horrible, and ever so deep, only you cry like David, and you will sooner or later share David’s deliverance. As […]
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Why do we call grace amazing? Grace is amazing because it works against the grain of common sense. Hard-nosed common sense will tell you that you are too wrong to meet the standards of a holy God; pardoning grace tells you that it’s all right in spite of so much
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God guides us, despite our uncertainties and our vagueness, even through our failing and mistakes. God leads us step by step, from event to event. Only afterward, as we look back over the way we have come and reconsider certain important moments in our lives in the light of all
Lord, I crawled across the barrenness to you with my empty cup, uncertain in asking any small drop of refreshment. If only I had known you better, I’d have come running with a bucket. Nancy Spiegelberg
Being a Christian is like starting a journey on a complex highway system. We may feel intimidated as we round the first bend in the road; we may want to pull over and not go on. But if we continue our journey, we find that God goes with us, showing
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When you and I want direction for our lives, we may not always be clear about it or certain that the direction has been given — even when we get it. That’s not always because of weak faith. That may be just our human inability to know what God knows.
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The discovery of God lies in the daily and the ordinary, not in the spectacular and the heroic. If we cannot find God in the routines of home and shop, then we will not find Him at all. ~ Richard J. Foster
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God would have us know that His power can help us beyond the probabilities of human reasoning, and that there is no weight so heavy and no law so trifling but He is both able and willing to afford us His omniscient wisdom and omnipotent help. A pin is not
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Our trials are not superficial or irrelevant. They are vehicles of grace that God uses to bring us growth. Superficial problems call for superficial solutions. But real life isn’t like that; its headaches and stresses go deeper, right down to the bone. They touch the nerve areas of our security.
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The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, and as much in God’s care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next minute is as foolish as care for a day in the next thousand years. In neither can we do anything, in both God is doing
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