People Who Say Such Things: Trust God with Difficult Circumstances
When you are doing your best to follow Jesus and it feels like you are exiled from your life, you are not being punished. You are being prepared.
When you are doing your best to follow Jesus and it feels like you are exiled from your life, you are not being punished. You are being prepared.
When the will of God is not executed in the ways of God it leads to something other than the will of God.
A choice of evils always leads to a spirit of weak resignation. The choice of greater faith always inspires a heart of strong surrender.
One of the most successful and seductive strategies of evil is to convince us our only choice is evil—that we must choose between the lesser of two evils.
God’s people sow humbly, even tearfully, in the midst of confusion, on the eve of darkness, and all in the sure confidence of the coming awakening.
Awakening is the outcome of encountering Jesus, by which the love of God the Father is poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit.
All at once simple and sublime, Psalm 23 is our clarity, our certainty, and our comfort. To pray it is to know it answered.
There is only one reason we can say, “I will fear no evil” and it’s not because evil is not powerful and all around us, but because the Good Shepherd is always with us.
Imitation comes from inspiration. It means doing the kinds of things Jesus does in the Gospels. It means obeying his teaching and imaginatively putting into practice his words and deeds.
Our souls are restored not so much by the green pastures and the still waters but by the presence of God himself.
This Shepherd who knows me—the good and true, the bad and ugly—this Shepherd loves me, wants the best for me, and wills to shape my desires and then to fulfill them.