"Christ wants to teach us that we should look at trials and suffering very differently than the way it appears and feels to us in this world...
It will serve for the best."
Martin Luther
Pruning by a diligent gardener. That is what our trials are. He strips and cuts and pinches branches that take strength and sap away from me. The result: more fruit, and better wine.
"There is an art to believing..." Martin Luther
Jonathan Edwards, Resolution #25:
"Resolved, to examine carefully and constantly what that one thing is in me which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it."
"We should believe God when He promises to love and protect us,
take care of us,
and listen to us,
even though we may not see it..." ML
"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen."
Hebrews 11:1
1 comments:
How often we have to remind ourselves and others that it's all about knowing that what God says is TRUE, rather than being manipulated by our feelings. I think it's harder in this day when everything is all about emotion, rather than truth.
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