However tiring our work may be, how could it ever be tiresome? How could it be anything less than a joy to serve the One who has given us all things for life, and enrichment, and enjoyment? Jesus, who suffered so much to secure our salvation. Topics: Salvation, Jesus, Service |
What an encouragement to realize that God has reserved you and me for a special task in His great work. In His hands we're not only useful, but priceless. Topics: Service |
Heartache forces us to embrace God out of desparate, urgent need. God is never closer than when your heart is aching. Topics: Suffering |
The greatest good suffering can do for me is to increase my capacity for God. Topics: Suffering |
Most of the verses written about praise in God's Word were voiced by people faced with crushing heartaches, injustice, treachery, slander, and scores of other difficult situations. Topics: Suffering |
You don't have to be alone in your hurt! Comfort is yours. Joy is an option. And it's all been made possible by your Saviour. He went without comfort so you might have it. He postponed joy so you might share in it. He willingly chose isolation so you might never be alone in your hurt and sorrow. Topics: Suffering, Comfort, Hurt |
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Whatever troubles are weighing you down are not chains. They are featherweight when compared to the glory yet to come. With a sweep of a prayer and the praise of a child's heart, God can strip away any cobweb. Topics: Suffering |
It is a glorious thing to know that your Father God makes no mistakes in directing or permitting that which crosses the path of your life. It is the glory of God to conceal a matter. It is our glory to trust Him, no matter what. Topics: Trust, Life |
Real satisfaction comes not in understanding God's motives, but in understanding His character, in trusting in His promises, and in leaning on Him and resting in Him as the Sovereign who knows what He is doing and does all things well. Topics: Trust Source: Is God Really in Control |
Believers are never told to become one; we already are one and are expected to act like it. Topics: Unity Source: Spontaneous Compassion |