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| Tealeaves Registered user Username: Tealeaves Post Number: 305 Registered: 5-2004 |
For you worriers out there, or those that are waiting for an answer from God on something and getting impatient in the waiting room.... The following is a link to our pastor's weblog. Keep in mind that our pastor just found out he has stage 5 melanoma cancer. http://livinghopechurch.typepad.com/john_bishop/ | ||
| Lisa_boyldavis Registered user Username: Lisa_boyldavis Post Number: 187 Registered: 3-2005 |
You have no idea how much this journal entry is meaning to me right now. I'm turning my worries into prayers. Lisa | ||
| Jwd Registered user Username: Jwd Post Number: 191 Registered: 4-2005  |
A powerful testimony of encouragement. William Cowper (1731-1800) wrote: "Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace, Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face." John Piper points out that living in future grace means believing that "the king's heart is like streams of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it whenever he wills" (Prov 21:1). God did it to Cyrus (Ez 1:1); he did it to Darius (Ez 6:22) and he did it later to Artaxerxes: "Blessed by the Lord, the God of our fathers, who put such a thing as this into the heart of the king, to adorn the house of the Lord" (Ez 7:27). God IS ruling the world. He IS ruling history. And it is all for the good of his people and the glory of His name. "From of old they have not heard nor perceived by ear, neither has the eye seen a God besides Thee, who acts in behalf of the one who waits for Him (Is 64:4). The power of patience flows through faith in the future, sovereign grace of God. | ||
| Tealeaves Registered user Username: Tealeaves Post Number: 306 Registered: 5-2004 |
Lisa... It means a lot to me right now too. I am the eternal worrier, and I have some undiagnosed medical problems myself that i am dealing with. But John is right, we need to live like it is already done. Worrying just wastes our emotions and energies. I choose to trust God's plan today. And i will kep making that choice every day. -tanya- | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 3740 Registered: 12-2003  |
Tanya, thank you for sharing your pastor's blog. It is inspiring. Jess, I love your last sentence: "The power of patience flows through faith in the future, sovereign grace of God." That caused me to sit and ponder... Colleen | ||
| Jwd Registered user Username: Jwd Post Number: 192 Registered: 4-2005 |
I love it when I can cause you to "sit and ponder" Colleen. LOL There ARE some deep, VERY thought provoking lessons here for us, I do believe. I'm re-accessing my own understanding of my walk of faith and what a significant role patience plays in our acceptance of the underlying truth of Rom 8:28, waiting for God's providential sovereign molding of the circumstances and situations affecting my life. I'm discovering it's a humbling revelation of how very far I am away from "absolute" surrender, as a lump of clay in the Master Potter's hands. Uncomplainingly submitting to what my ego interprets as the never-ending kneading, squeezing, mashing, rubbing, rolling of FATHER's hands on old "lumpy me" (clay that is) - - no refernece is intended toward my waste size - - is a gigantic challenge for His Grace to handle. I rejoice in unabandoned praise that He "IS ABLE to do far more abundantly beyond all that (I) ask or (even) think, according to (His) power that works within (me). Eph 3:20. Blessings, Jess |
