lettersinlonghand

Thoughts on Christianity and life | Instagram: @lettersinlonghand

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It often sounds like an attack, doesn’t it, this question? But I’ve found it to be a really effective heart-check.

Am I trying to gain the applause of men?
Because if I am, then I’m not a follower of Christ.

What about you? Who are you trying to impress?

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Today’s reminder: Stay faithful☀️ https://t.co/Kv0juALOgj

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“Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.” Luke 13:24

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“I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will heal you.” 2 Kings 20:20c

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There is no easy answer to the questions that haunt those who grieve. What do you say to someone who suffers a loss, knowing that God was fully capable of giving the very thing they asked for and yet withheld it?

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Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior. Habakkuk 3:17-19

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In the world but not of this world.

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It's the Little Moments https://t.co/ZgvwWgc59G via @lettersfromjo

[Elisabeth Elliot @EElliotFdn]

“We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.” ~ Elisabeth Elliot

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But I will remember that you stood there many happy weeks, when I watered you and told Joshua about the new leaves you had grown.

A while, you say. A while.

Tonight My Rosemary Plant Died https://t.co/FYDvQ84qtp via @lettersfromjo

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Tonight My Rosemary Plant Died https://t.co/FYDvQ83SDR

[Desiring God @desiringGod]

“He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.” —Psalm 23:3

[Alistair Begg @AlistairBegg]

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

(Philippians 3:14 ESV)

[Jonathan Edwards @Jnthn_Edwards]

In all our business and affairs let us go to God and consult him and make known our case to him and commit our way to him that he may direct our steps.

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Besides, we don’t control whether or how we are to be blessed. God does. And who says that the man who has little in his pocket but lots of joy and peace is less blessed than the man with money to spare?

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I often hear about the “cycle of blessing” and people wanting to “bless” others so that we too may be “blessed”. But if we are to give to others, shouldn’t it be only to be a blessing?

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The ultimate comfort, then, for the believer in need is not that he has enough faith to believe that favor or blessing will come, but that the Lord is good, and he knows what we need even before we ask.

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God is not a genie. We can’t claim to believe that he is sovereign yet “claim” or “manifest” things into being. We are not in control, and neither are our words. God is. And he does as he wills.

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Let’s go to God for our needs and even our wants, as a child does to a good father—but always with the attitude that “though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my savior.” (Habakkuk 3:17-18)