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Meditations of the day

FineLinen

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FineLinen

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"Faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience. It does not calm the unquiet heart, but is itself this unquiet heart in man. Those who hope in Christ can no longer put up with reality as it is, but begin to suffer under it, to contradict it. Peace with God means conflict with the world, for the goad of the promised future stabs inexorably into the flesh of every unfulfilled present." ~Jürgen Moltmann
 

FineLinen

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"God will take those who trust Him from their exceeding limited into His excessively unlimited." -David E. Johnson
 

FineLinen

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“Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering…. The love of God did not protect His own Son…. He will not necessarily protect us – not from anything it takes to make us like His Son. A lot of hammering and chiseling and purifying by fire will have to go into the process.” ~ Elisabeth Elliot
 

FineLinen

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"Sometimes life is so hard you can only do the next thing. Whatever that is just do the next thing. God will meet you there." -Elisabeth Elliot

"Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us." -Elisabeth Elliot

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FineLinen

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The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word “love”, and look on things as if man were the centre of them. Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake. “Thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.” We were made not primarily that we may love God (though we were made for that too) but that God may love us, that we may become objects in which the divine love may rest “well pleased”. ― C.S. Lewis

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FineLinen

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"Do you believe that the God of Jesus loves you beyond worthiness and unworthiness, beyond fidelity and infidelity—that he loves you in the morning sun and in the evening rain—that he loves you when your intellect denies it, your emotions refuse it, your whole being rejects it. Do you believe that God loves without condition or reservation and loves you this moment as you are and not as you should be." -Brennan Manning

"The wonderful mystery of Jesus Christ is in the length and breadth of its unfading, inexaustible and beyond comprehension character." -David E. Johnson
 
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