“An obsession merely with doing all that God commands may be the very thing that rules out being the kind of person he calls us to be.” -Dallas Willard
God’s strength, remember, is perfected in our weakness. Don’t be afraid (or too stubborn) to get help, to speak up, to do whatever you need to do to take care of yourself.
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I had a teenager who definitely was born after the era of 2000’s rap ask me today how to spell “independent” and it took everything in me to not sing it back to her.
God is a Holy, healing God who is also deeply relational. He sits with us in the trenches of sin and suffering, and takes us by the hand into a restored Eden where he takes the time to wipe each of our tears from our face.
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“They will not hunger or thirst,
the scorching heat or sun will not strike them; for their compassionate one will guide them, and lead them to springs.” Isaiah 49:10
“I will be the same until your old age,
and I will bear you up when you turn gray. I have made you, and I will carry you; I will bear and rescue you.” Isaiah 46:4
“The principle of the incarnation is that God, who is radically unlike human beings, becomes a human and offers humans friendship…Friendship helps rehumanize people whom society dehumanizes.” https://t.co/DRItTJImz5