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God’s Response To Our Concerns:
You say: “It’s impossible”
God Says: All things are possible (Luke 18:27)You say: “I’m too tired”
God Says: I will give you rest (Matthew 11:28-30)You say: “Nobody really loves me”
God Says: I Love you (John 3:16 & John 13:34)You say: “I can’t go on”
God Says: My grace is sufficient (II Cor. 12:9 & Psalm 91:15)You say: “I can’t figure things out”
God Says: I will direct your steps (Proverbs 3:5-6)You say: “I can’t do it”
God Says: You can do all things (Philippians 4:13)You say: “I’m not able”
God Says: I am able (II Cor. 9:8)You say: “It’s not worth it”
God Says: It will be worth it (Romans 8:28)You say: “I can’t forgive myself”
God Says: I FORGIVE YOU (I John 1:9 & Romans 8:1)You say: “I can’t manage”
God Says: I will supply all your needs (Philippians 4:19)You say: “I’m afraid”
God Says: I have not given you a spirit of fear (II Timothy 1:7)You say: “I’m always worried and frustrated”
God Says: Cast all your cares on ME (I Peter 5:7)You say: “I don’t have enough faith”
God Says: I’ve given everyone a measure of FAITH (Romans 12:3)You say: “I’m not smart enough”
God Says: I give you wisdom (I Cor. 1:30)You say: “I feel all alone”
God Says: I will never leave you or forsake you (Hebrews 13:5)Be encouraged knowing that God is with us always (Matthew 28:20).
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“Your real, new self (which is Christ’s and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him. Does that sound strange? The same principle holds, you know, for more everyday matters. Even in social life, you will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of impression you are making. Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. The principle runs through all life from top to bottom, Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favourite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end submit with every fibre of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.”
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“The nuns taught us that there were two ways through life; the way of nature and the way of grace. You have to choose which one you’ll follow. Grace doesn’t try to please itself. Accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and injuries. Nature only wants to please itself. Get others to please it, too. Likes to lord it over them. To have its own way. It finds reasons to be unhappy when all the world is shining around it. And love is smiling through all things. The nuns taught us that no one who loves the way of grace ever comes to a bad end.”
-Mrs O’Brien; The Tree of Life
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