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Trusting God with Your Pain
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For the last couple of days, I’ve found myself singing, humming, and meditating on the words of Worth it All by Rita Springer. As I’ve thought on the message of the song, I keep pondering on the words, “You hold on to all my pain, with it You are pulling me closer, and pulling me into Your ways.”
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How Can You Maximize Your Life?
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It’s often been said that life is a great teacher, but perhaps the greater truth is that life has the potential to be a great teacher. Life is composed of both good and bad days, wonderful and terrible seasons, Potentially we can learn from everything from everyday, every experience. However, often we fail to really gain all that is potentially ours.
We sometimes speak of how we suppose we didn’t get a particular lesson on the first go-round so we have found ourselves going around again.
Those of us who are Christians often offer that example referring to the children of Israel who wandered around in the wilderness for forty years because of their unbelief. Around and around the same mountain they went. But in reality, the Israelites who didn’t believe, died in the wilderness and never entered the Promised Land. It was the new generation who were allowed to enter.
We would all agree that we don’t want to be the generation who never learned, or who learned too late to make a difference.
So how do we maximize our lives? How do we learn? Here are a few ways that I am learning and have learned – and I hope to keep learning because I want to be all I can be. I want to maximize my life for the glory of God.
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Beyond Blame
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(This is part two of a series on forgiveness. I’m not sure how many parts there will be! Pt. 1 is The Hardest Thing You’ll Ever Do).
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It All Comes Down to Love
Posted by: | CommentsWell, fellow travelers on this journey, we have reached day 21. We will now prepare to break our fast tomorrow. I pray these days have been days of insight for you and days of personal growth in your relationship with God and others. Remember, God is always doing more than you can see and He honors every sacrifice we have made because we wanted to know his heart more.
When Jesus summarized the two most important things about a believer’s life, he said 1) love God, and 2) love others. It all comes down to love so today I end these devotionals with this section of Scripture from 1 Corinthians 13. Read it prayerfully, slowly, listening and being sensitive for any way the Holy Spirit wants to speak to you.
Even if I can speak in all the tongues of earth—and those of the angels, too—but do not have love, I am just a noisy gong, a clanging cymbal.
If I have the gift of prophesy such that I can comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge, or if I have faith great enough to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
If I give away everything I own to feed those poorer than I, then hand over my body to be burned, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
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The Blessings of Unity
Posted by: | CommentsIn Psalm 133, David reflected on what it was like for God’s people to live together in unity.
1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is
For brethren to dwell together in unity!
2 It is like the precious oil upon the head,
Running down on the beard,
The beard of Aaron,
Running down on the edge of his garments.
3 It is like the dew of Hermon,
Descending upon the mountains of Zion;
For there the LORD commanded the blessing—
Life forevermore.
These are some of the principles we can draw out of this passage:
- It is good for God’s people to live together in unity.
- It is pleasant for God’s people to live together in unity.
- It is like the precious anointing oil that was used to anoint Aaron, the first high priest; unity is precious.
- It flows down from our high priest, Jesus.
- Its presence on our body is visible. It is tangible.
- It flows from one part of the body to another.
- It is fragrant like anointing oil.
- It is refreshing like the dew which fell on Mt. Hermon.
- The place where unity dwells is the place where God commands his blessing.
- The blessing of God is full of life.
As you can see, unity is highly valued by God and is highly desirable. It begins in our heart and affects everything around us. It draws others to it because it is irresistibly beautiful. Are you living in the place of unity?
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