Life is fraught with disappointments and tribulations. Life often renders us downcast and distraught because life refuses to cooperate with our fervent hopes and best intentions.
People fail us. We place our love in them and they use that precious gift to their advantage then abandon us to our lonely estate.
Opportunities elude us. We strive to achieve the utmost our abilities challenge us to attain but our efforts miss the mark.
Resources challenge us. What we have is seemingly not quite enough. Whether emotional or physical or financial abilities are required, we find our supply to be just short of the required amount.
The words of scripture haunt us--"In the world you shall have tribulation..." for indeed, trials abound in our lives. We are challenged on every hand to keep our faith when our circumstances press our faith to its limit.
Debt, depression, disease--all take their toll of that precious commodity and we are hard-pressed to employ our faith to its fullest. We yearn to say as Job did, "Though HE slay me, yet will I trust HIM," Job 13:15, but we find that our "measure of faith," Romans 12:3, falls far short of his.
At those times when we cannot lean upon any earthly possession or any earthly emotion or any earthly power; at those times when all human resources prove insufficient to get us through our challenge, there is ONE upon whom we may lean. There is ONE who has admonished that we be of good cheer because, "...He has overcome the world." John 16:33
When we are beyond ourselves, may we remember that JESUS LOVES US, and may we be mindful that HIS LOVE NEVER FAILS!
Resources challenge us. What we have is seemingly not quite enough. Whether emotional or physical or financial abilities are required, we find our supply to be just short of the required amount.
The words of scripture haunt us--"In the world you shall have tribulation..." for indeed, trials abound in our lives. We are challenged on every hand to keep our faith when our circumstances press our faith to its limit.
Debt, depression, disease--all take their toll of that precious commodity and we are hard-pressed to employ our faith to its fullest. We yearn to say as Job did, "Though HE slay me, yet will I trust HIM," Job 13:15, but we find that our "measure of faith," Romans 12:3, falls far short of his.
At those times when we cannot lean upon any earthly possession or any earthly emotion or any earthly power; at those times when all human resources prove insufficient to get us through our challenge, there is ONE upon whom we may lean. There is ONE who has admonished that we be of good cheer because, "...He has overcome the world." John 16:33
When we are beyond ourselves, may we remember that JESUS LOVES US, and may we be mindful that HIS LOVE NEVER FAILS!
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