#Jesus is the true lover of our souls and He longs to make us whole. He knows our pain, sees our sorrow and walks with us today and into tomorrow. #Gospel#God
@chuckswindoll Thank you. Help us to keep our Joy in Jesus while we trudge through the pain of our last days on this earth. Keep our eyes set on the prize of eternal life with Him where there is no more sorrow, no more pain. Amen
"I'm finally learning that whatever I entrust to God, He can take care of better than I.
That nothing under His control can ever be out of control."
- CHUCK SWINDOLL
Good Friday asks something of us that most days don't; to sit with the weight before we reach for the victory. To stand at the cross and let it be what it actually was: brutal, costly, and chosen.
He didn't bypass the pain. He walked straight into it, for us. The grief of Gethsemane, the silence of the Father, the darkness over Calvary. Jesus felt the full weight of every sorrow this world carries.
And yet, even there, His trust in the Father held.
Good Friday isn't a day to rush past. It's a day to remember what love actually cost. The joy that carried Jesus through the cross wasn't indifference to suffering...it was unshakable trust in the One who held the other side of it.
@chuckswindoll Thank you. Help us to keep our Joy in Jesus while we trudge through the pain of our last days on this earth. Keep our eyes set on the prize of eternal life with Him where there is no more sorrow, no more pain. Amen
@chuckswindoll When I was young (mid 80’s) and living in Texas, your voice on the radio was like the scripture that read, “My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me.“ I clung to your every word until I could recognize Jesus speaking to me in that “still small voice”. God Bless you
To forgive is not optional—it is the very condition of our own forgiveness. To harbor vengeance is to live in fantasy, enslaved to illusions of fairness. To embrace affliction as one’s own and to entrust judgment to God is the reality of mercy, where the only true justice is love
“We have an infinite capacity to delude ourselves that we are making gains in the spiritual life despite the changeability of the human heart and mind. Our hearts are often host to contrary desires - opposing in their very nature. We can find ourselves loving the very things that we should hate.”Saint Isaac the Syrian
@philokalia_min Thank you! Would you please email me your home address so I could send a card to you and your mom? Thanks for all your wonderful words of wisdom! Lee
@elonmuskADO Happy Birthday Mom Maye Musk! How grateful the world should be to you for having a son like Elon! God bless you on your birthday and always.
Why do you think Isaac speaks about Spiritual Unity as being a process (on going perpetually) of opening up (unsealed) of a recollection?
A new word to me is “eternality” (as Christ was before time, and in time, and will remain at the end of time). If we are in Christ and Christ is in us, then we too would conceivably possess eternality. In which case we would be “recollecting” our previous “spiritual unity” with Christ. I am awestruck by this statement of Isaac. He is not only a “dessert father” but a mystic!