Hi Georgina, There are times when the various Scripture passages can sound hollow and without meaning—even trite. This is often because we are so familiar with them that we’ve forgotten why we memorized them in the first place or perhaps because we believe the world; and the world sucks the life out of the truths […]
When Troubles Come Thick
by Douglas Wilson There are times—and this may be one of them for you—when troubles come thick, and there seems to be no end, and you cannot touch the bottom with your feet. Man is born to trouble, as Scripture says, as the sparks fly upward. But here is the encouraging word. “I waited patiently for […]
Suffering Through Grief
Grief is the word we use referring to the variety of emotions we feel when dealing with loss. There are generally three kinds of events that can cause grief: The first is when someone close to us dies; the second is when we lose anything at all; the third is when we don’t receive something we […]
Something Beautiful
by Lisa Leidenfrost What happens when life goes in a direction that you don’t want it to, that wasn’t supposed to happen to you? You have to yield your ideal of what you had wanted for your life and give it to God, offer it up as a sacrifice to Him. Then leave it there, […]
As I am pleased
“Sinner, thou thinkest, that because of thy sins and infirmities, I cannot save thy soul; but behold my Son is by me, and upon him I look, and not on thee, and will deal with thee according as I am pleased with him.” From The Works of John Bunyan
in every condition
“I offer the following description: Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God’s wise and fatherly disposal in every condition” (Jeremiah Burroughs, Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment, p. 2).
grace shall conquer
“… all God cares for, works for, plots for it is to do His people no more hurts than this—to advance His grace in them and by them, all His hewings and hammerings of you, nay, His knocking you to pieces and new melting and casting of you, it is that you may be vessels […]
contentment requires enormous strength!
Gaining contentment does not mean losing sorrow or saying goodbye to discomfort. Contentment means sacrificing itchy cravings to gain a settled soul. You give up one thing for another. It’s hard. Hard, but sweet. You are “sorrowful, yet always rejoicing.” You “have nothing, yet possess everything.” First Timothy 6:6 says, “Godliness with containment is great […]
Dying For Others
I have around 250,000 conscious hours remaining to me in which I could be smiling or scowling, rejoicing in my life, in this race, in this story, or moaning and complaining about my troubles. I can be giving my fingers, my back, my mind, my words, my breaths, to my wife and my children and […]