Josh Jeremiah

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@EconTalker I read this last night with my daughter and wanted to make sure you were aware of it given the slide rule came up on a recent episode.

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Finding, following, keeping, struggling,
Is He sure to bless?
Saints, apostles, prophets, martyrs,
All answer, “yes”

Streams in the Desert 9/21

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How happy we are if the hurricanes that blow across life’s raging sea have the effect of making Jesus more precious to us! It is better to weather the storm with Christ than to sail smooth waters without Him.

-Streams in the Desert

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Why should I be frightened and surprised by the plow of the Lord, which makes deep furrows in my soul? I know He is not some arbitrary or irrational farmer—His purpose is to yield a harvest.

-Samuel Rutherford

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Let us sing now, not in order to enjoy a life of leisure, but in order to lighten your labors. You should sing as wayfarers do—sing, but continue your journey. Do not be lazy, but sing to make your journey enjoyable. Sing, but keep going.

-Saint Augustine

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My situation is urgent, and I cannot see how I will ever be delivered. Yet this is not my concern, for He who made the promise will find a way to keep it. My part is simply to obey His commands, not to direct His ways.

Streams in the Desert 5/3

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Hope is like the stars—unseen in the sunshine of prosperity and only discovered during a night of adversity.

Streams in the Desert 4/10

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God, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer’s; he makes me tread on my high places.”
Habakkuk 3:17-19

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“Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation…”

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So I will thank and praise You for this puzzle,
And trust where I cannot understand.
Rejoicing You do hold me worth such testing,
I cling the closer to Your guiding hand.

Streams in the Desert 3/1

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It puzzles me; but, Lord, You understandest,
And will one day explain this crooked thing.
Meanwhile, I know that it has worked out Your best—
Its very crookedness taught me to cling.

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You have fenced up my ways, made my paths crooked,
To keep my wand’ring eyes fixed on You,
To make me what I was not, humble, patient;
To draw my heart from earthly love to You.

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Who knows how soon these raging waves will give way to a sea of glass?

Stream in the Desert 2/16

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Crowns are cast in crucibles.

“In this world you will have trouble. Take heart!I have overcome the world.”

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So, whether on the hilltops high and fair
I dwell, or in the sunless valleys, where
The shadows lie, what matter? He is there.

Streams in the Desert 1/3

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He leads us on by paths we did not know;
Upward He leads us, though the steps be slow,
Though oft we faint and falter on the way,
Though storms and darkness oft obscure the day;
Yet when the clouds are gone,
We know He leads us on.

Streams in the Desert 1/1

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If He is the Source of our mercies, mercy will never fail us. No heat or drought can dry the “river whose streams make glad the city of God” (Ps. 46:4).

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We cannot see what loss, sorrow, and trials are accomplishing. We need only to trust. The Father comes near to take our hand and lead us on our way today.

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Sometimes the Lord’s way is hard,
Leading through many stresses and storms;
But Satan’s harsh touch is barred,
And God’s character He surely forms.

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@EconTalker This was one of those years where I earmarked exactly 5 episodes as potential for the top 5. No hard decisions today when voting.