Grace for Every Shade of Sorrow
This variety of trials is like different temperature settings on God's furnace. The settings are adjusted to burn off our dross, to temper us or soften us according to what meets our highest need.
Written by Chuck Swindoll, these encouraging devotional thoughts are published seven days per week.
This variety of trials is like different temperature settings on God's furnace. The settings are adjusted to burn off our dross, to temper us or soften us according to what meets our highest need.
I have come to this conclusion: Doing the will of God is rarely easy and uncomplicated. Instead, it is often difficult and convoluted. Or...mysterious.
Can't seem to get where you want to go fast enough? Leave it to God.
Mother Nature didn't make me. Fate did not shape me, neither was I just a biological combination of mother and dad in a moment of sexual passion. Nor was I conceived through blind chance.
He is the Potter, we are the clay. He is the one who gives the commands; we are the ones who obey.
Do you know what I've discovered about the Lord? He doesn't give wisdom on credit. He doesn't advance you a bundle of insight....
And I've got news for those who struggle with God's timing. You may not live to see God's time completely fulfilled.
The tyranny of the urgent will always out-shout the essential nature of the important...if we let it.
Worry is assuming responsibilities that you cannot handle. The truth is, they are responsibilities that God never intended for you to handle, because they are His.
Your desert experience might involve caring for an ailing family member or an elderly parent over an extended time, with no help at hand and no relief in sight. Your sojourn in the dry lands might be a stubborn physical condition that keeps you confined.