Article by David French.
David, thank you for your service, leadership and encouragement.
Encouragement
I Peter 5:10
The God of all grace will himself
restore
confirm
strengthen
establish
you
To him be the dominion forever and ever
Amen
Reflections from Sunday
Walking with God is not a vacation – it’s an adventure.
God does not believe in immediate gratification. He wants to build faith and trust in Him. He wants to build endurance in us.
God often calls us to the desert with Him. I’d rather be with God in the desert, than on a luxury vacation without Him.
Until He comes, we have work to do. We are His ministers and He works through us (and most often in spite of our shortcomings).
Great things have yet to come. Greater things have yet to be done…
Is it possible to understand God?
No.
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:8-9
I don’t understand why God does what He does.
All I can do is seek His will for my life. And most of the time, this seems impossible.
So right now, right here I must take action where I know I can, but wait for the rest.
Seeking God’s will = taking (what seem to be very small) steps forward + waiting.
In the end, may all this somehow bring glory to Him.
Encourage one another with these words
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words.
I Thessalonians 4: 16-18
Won’t Back Down
I am on solid ground. When all is lost, all is left to gain. You ran off the darkest night. You gave me second life. And kept me in this fight…. some of my favorite words from Mat Kearney. Here’s the rest of the song:
You woke the morning up
Running off the darkest night
The longest light I’ve seen
Running off the darkest night
The longest light I’ve seen
Here goes a chance I know
Cashing in on all my chips
Let all my ships come fly
These days, a little bit longer than the last
And all of your ways, a little bit stronger than the past
And your light, found my bottle in the night
Kept me in this fight, gave me second life
And I won’t back down
I won’t turn around and around
And I won’t back down
Doesn’t matter what comes crashing down
I’m still gonna stand my solid ground
You found me once and for all
I laid it down in the sinking ground
The hopeless undertow
Singing out the gentle sound
Rattling through my smoking screens
My broken dreams last night
Hallelujah ripped through my veins
I heard the hammer drop
My blood in the rain
Hallelujah came like a train
When all is lost
All is left to gain
Hallelujah
I have felt God’s hand and His comfort. He is good, our Shepherd who restores our souls.
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