Somehow, the prayers you’ve prayed the longest are the sweetest when the answer finally comes. The heart is filled, the worry immediately dies and a satisfaction with God and his grace flows deeply over you.
Trying to understand a world where people want me to be as fearful as them and then get outraged when I’m not. Fearful and angry is a tough way to go through life.
My dad was always my hero. He’s been gone since 2006, but I’m still learning from him. I thank God for him and pray I’ve measured up to him as a father to my sons and the fatherless kids God has placed in my path. I can think of no greater title than DAD.
Right is right even if no one is doing it. Wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it. Do your actions seek the approval of others or the approval of Christ?
“He is wise at heart and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him and succeeded?” Job 9:4. Remember this when things don’t go your way and your heart hardens toward God. How can it possibly lead to success?
God is an amazing artist. He takes the shattered pieces of our lives and steadily builds an amazing abstract masterpiece from all of the parts. He didn’t allow those things to happen so he can show his power. He shows his power out of love precisely because they happened.