Hope

From the Horse and his Boy

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“And now my son, waste no time on questions, but obey. This damsel is wounded. Your horses are spent. Rabadash is at this moment finding a ford over the Winding Arrow. If you run now, without a moment’s rest, you will still be in time to warn King Lune.”

Shasta’s heart fainted at these words for he felt he had no strength left. And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one. But all he said out loud was:

“Where is the King?”

by C.S. Lewis, the chapter called The Hermit of the Southern

Song Of Hope

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All things bright and beautiful You are
All things wise and wonderful You are
In my darkest night, You brighten up the skies
A song will rise

I will sing a song of hope
Sing along
God of heaven come down
Heaven come down
Just to know that You are near is enough
God of heaven come down, heaven come down

All things new
I can start again
Creator, God
Calling me Your friend
Sing praise, my soul
To the Maker of the skies
A song will rise

I will sing a song of hope
Sing along
God of heaven come down
Heaven come down
Just to know You and be loved is enough
God of heaven come down, heaven come down

Hallelujah, sing
Hallelujah, sing
Hallelujah, sing
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Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”
He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”

Revelation 21:1-5

Is it possible to understand God?

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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.

Renaissance

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It’s really hard to be changed and molded by God and made more like Christ. It’s painful and takes an immense amount of trust and hope. I like this song because it talks about God being with us in the pain and the struggle. And how the struggle turns into Renaissance, re-birth, growth, moving from where we were to where God wants us to be. This song is by Mat Kearney.

i hear you sing softly to me

i can be the wall when you fall down
find me on the rocks when you break down
i heard it in the song when you call out
but i got to say now it’s got to change

this is my broken heart
this is my bleeding start
this is the way i’ve come to know you
this is my winding road
this is my way back home
this is the narrow door you know that i will walk through

lone to trust midst the rubble and the dust
humbled, it took this much to break down and understand
spent my life this far on castles made of sand
tossed in the breakers in the palm of your hand
now i can finally stand

i hear you sing softly to me

i can be the wall when you fall down
find me on the rocks when you break down
i heard it in the song when you call out
but i got to say now it’s got to change

I Need You – by Jars of Clay

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Strangely out of place
There’s a light filling this room where
None would follow before
I can’t deny it burns me up inside
I fan the flames to melt away my pride
Do I want shelter from the rain
Or the rain to wash me away?

CHORUS
I need you, I need you, I need you
I need you, I need you, I need you
You’re all I’m livin’ for

I might sound like a fool
But I think I felt you moving closer to me
Face to the ground to hide the fatal cut
I fight the weight, I feel you lift me up
You are the shelter from the rain
And the rain to wash me away

CHORUS
I need you, I need you, I need you
You’re all I’m livin’ for
(All I’m livin’ for)
All I’m livin’ for
(all I’m livin’ for)
You’re all I’m livin’ for

Face to the ground to hide the fatal cut
I fight the weight, I feel you lift me up
I can’t deny it burns me up inside
I fan the flames to melt away my pride
I only had a second to spare
But all the time in the world to know you’re there
You are the shelter from the rain
And the rain to wash me away

I need you, I need you, I need you

Encourage one another with these words

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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

Psalm 103

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verses 11- 19

For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;
as far as the east is from the west,
so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
As a father shows compassion to his children,
so the LORD shows compassion to those who fear him.
For he knows our frame;
he remembers that we are dust.

As for man, his days are like grass;
he flourishes like a flower of the field;
for the wind passes over it, and it is gone,
and its place knows it no more.
But the steadfast love of the LORD is from
everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him,
and his righteousness to children’s children,
to those who keep his covenant
and remember to do his commandments.
The LORD has established his throne in the heavens,
and his kingdom rules over all.