This is necessary. People are getting out of control and feel justified and comfortable making threats like that. Even worse, following through with threats like this seems likely in today’s social climate.
If I'm honest this has been a hard season for me lately. I've been struggling with trusting God's timing. I was reminded when reading Psalm 37 today that I am to be still before Yahweh and wait patiently. That Yahweh is good to those who wait for him and seek him, and it is good to wait quietly for God’s salvation (Lam. 3:25–26). This quiet waiting involves hoping in God’s word while the soul waits more intensely than watchmen awaiting morning (Psalm 130:5–6).
I was reminded that prior to preaching to thousands, for a season Peter went back to fishing after thinking he failed Jesus. That Paul sat in prison cells, Lazarus lay in a tomb, Jonah prayed in the belly of a fish, Hannah wept on the steps of the tabernacle, Joseph was locked in the captivity, and Moses stood in the fields of Median herding sheep. All before God made moves in his timing.
Times of waiting, while hard, remind us of the confidence we should have in God’s timing and character. When direction seems slow in coming, we're called to wait for it, assured it will come when the time is ready (Hab. 2:3). Yahweh himself waits to be gracious and show mercy, and those who wait for him are blessed, for he is a God of justice (Isa. 30:18). Rather than taking matters into their own hands, like I often am tempted to do, we are instructed not to repay evil but to wait for the Lord, who will deliver us (Prov 20:22).
Hoping for what is unseen involves waiting with patience (Romans 8:25), and through the Spirit and faith, believers eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness (Galatians 5:5). Waiting involves expectancy and hope regarding events and contingencies still in the future, it's the outworking of a spiritual posture directed at trusting God’s promises and timing rather than our own understanding.
Knowing all of this, writing here on X doesn't make my season of needing to wait any easier, but the consistent, inspired, inerrant testimony of scripture nonetheless gives me something solid to trust in. I am fickle, impatient, and finite. God is trustworthy, forbearing, and infinite. And his timing is right even if I don't know how or when things will happen.
🚨 WOW! The Supreme Court didn't just give President Trump a win in ending temporary status for Haitians — they ruled that courts DON'T EVEN HAVE THE AUTHORITY to review TPS in the first place!
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"The language is very clear. Alito said: all the arguments the litigants had weren't even 'sound,' because they don't even HAVE the authority to review what the Secretary has determined."
A major study involving more than 470,000 participants has found that using sunscreen massively increases the risk of three major types of skin cancer.
According to the UK Biobank study, frequent sunscreen users faced a 292% higher risk of invasive melanoma, a 140% higher risk of basal cell carcinoma, and a 126% higher risk of squamous cell carcinoma.
https://t.co/369hzctjXq
Después del terremoto en Venezuela, una familia buscaba a su bebé entre los escombros. El papá entre lágrimas lo llamaba a los gritos Y EL BEBÉ SALIÓ GATEANDO.
Esto es un milagro
A Texas man is taking World Cup tourists four-wheeling, dancing, horseback riding, and shopping at Buc-ee's to give them the best American experience.
Drew Haas of Texas is taking tourists to his 30-acre property to help them make the most of their travels.
"We love this lifestyle. We enjoy every second of it. We just wanna, like, soak it in," one tourist said.
Amazing.
18 year old girl Ryan Al Najjar was bound with tape and drowned in a ditch by her own father and brothers.
Why? Because she said she didn’t want to wear a hijab anymore.
Now tell me again that the hijab is a choice. Tell me that Muslim women have a “choice”.
Tell me that Ryan had a choice.
🚨 BOOM! US SUPREME COURT BLOCKS Democrats from banning legal firearm carriers entering businesses without express permission from the owner
The 2nd Amendment keeps winning, and liberals are FURIOUS.
🇫🇷 Heartbreaking footage shows french teen Louis being brutally beaten just weeks ago.
At the time he filed a police complaint; got nothing in return.
He then got ambushed again in Narbonne...
His killers mocked him while beating him to death, saying: “You won’t talk to the police anymore.”
A French kid tortured and brutally murdered. When is enough enough?
Writer: Claudio