Proclaiming God's Faithfulness
Try Adding But God… to your circumstance As a homeschool mom, one of the things I’ve always told my children is to “Watch out for the ‘buts’ when we study God’s word.” This was always good for a laugh when they were younger. Recently I was reminded of this again when a speaker I was listening to said the same thing, “Watch out for the
When our pastor said this in a sermon I was reminded of how much difference a word can make. In the above sentence the only difference is from or in, but they mean totally different things. David wrote a lot about hiding in God: “Thou [art] my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.”
What’s a stuffer? It is someone like me who never seems to have a place to keep the good “stuff” I seem to constantly have when I’m reading my Bible. There are the devotions that I tear out of the paper devotional booklets I use. I have dozens of those. If I read it and it seems to speak to me I tear it out
Can God trust you with sorrow, With anguish, and with pain, Or would your faith soon falter And faint beneath the strain? Nicholson When I read this poem earlier this week I was struck by the first line, “Can God trust you with sorrow, with anguish, and with pain”. At first it seemed to be an odd question, but as I pondered it I was
