However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
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The past is playing with my head, causing only strife,
Failure knocks me down again and nothing I do is right;
My mistakes are constantly running through my mind,
And I always relive each day in the middle of the night;
When I wrestle with my pain, struggle with my pride,
Sometimes I feel alone or feel my life is too full of sin;
But God reminds me that despite being deeply flawed:
I no longer have to carry the weight of who I’ve been,
Because I’m forgiven, I’m loved, I’m a child of God;
And that’s all that really matters, in this immoral life.
// An Essay I Found That My Brother Daniel Wrote For School Today//
“What The Lord Means To Me”
Through a scary situation, the Lord has proven his faithfulness to me. My mom, for the first time, was going to let me look around the store by myself. I was so excited, no more riding in grocery carts. When we got to Sears I asked my mom if I could look around, and she said, ‘‘Yes.” I started by going up the escalator and up, up, up I went until I reached the top. My mom followed me for a bit and then stopped to look at something. I took the chance and started to walk quickly ahead of her. Next, when I was sure I was alone, I went to the boys’ section to look at some clothes. About ten minutes later, I looked around, realizing, I was lost. I started freaking out, looking around frantically. By that point, I was really scared but then I asked the Lord to guide me to get me to my family or for them to find me. Right when I thought God had abandoned me, I heard a familiar voice, and it was my sister, Jordan. I ran up to Jordan and hugged her tight. At that moment, I knew no matter where I go God will never abandon me.
God has to hide from us what He does, until, due to the growth of our personal character, we get to the level where He is then able to reveal it.
When I cannot understand my Father’s leading,
And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate,
I Still I hear that gentle whisper ever pleading,
God is working, God is faithful, ONLY WAIT.
Teach me to see another door in the very inaction of the hour. Help me to find in the very prohibition thus to serve Thee, a new opening into Thy service. Inspire me with the knowledge that a man may at times be called to do his duty by doing nothing, to work by keeping still, to serve by waiting. When I remember the power of the “still small voice,” I shall not murmur that sometimes the Spirit suffers me not to go.
Desperation is better than despair. Faith did not make our desperate days. Its work is to sustain and solve them. The only alternative to a desperate faith is despair, and faith holds on and prevails.
To maintain our friendship and faithfulness to the Bridegroom, we have to be more careful to have the moral and vital relationship to Him above everything else, including obedience. Sometimes there is nothing to obey and our only task is to maintain a vital connection with Jesus Christ, seeing that nothing interferes with it. Only occasionally is it a matter of obedience. At those times when a crisis arises, we have to find out what God’s will is. Yet most of our life is not spent in trying to be consciously obedient, but in maintaining this relationship— being the “friend of the bridegroom.” Christian work can actually be a means of diverting a person’s focus away from Jesus Christ.
Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led. But it does mean loving and knowing the One who is leading. It is literally a life of faith, not of understanding and reason—a life of knowing Him who calls us to go. Faith is rooted in the knowledge of a Person, and one of the biggest traps we fall into is the belief that if we have faith, God will surely lead us to success in the world.
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