If we hope for what we see not, then do we with patience wait for it? – ROM. 8:25   How often have you thought, “if only God would tell me what he wants to do.” We say to ourselves, “all I need is a glimpse of what God means for us to be, then…

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Tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope. – ROM. 5, 3,4.   My grandmother on occasion would say when she heard bad news or of someone’s troubles – “No good can come from that.” I have learned though that sometimes what seems to be the world coming to the end, may in time…

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Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ – Gal. 6:2   When you are puzzled and perplexed about what to do next there is always a right answer: do something for someone other than yourself. When you feel like you cannot bear another problem and your load is too much…

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In Jose Saramago’s, The Gospel According to Christ, he lists the apostles and how they died. He does not portray a very pretty picture, yet none shirked from their call. Jesus never promised his followers relief from temporal evils. The early followers of Christ went to the lions and to terrible deaths, yet he kept them…

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As having nothing, and yet possessing all things. – 2 Cor. 6:10   I was recently reminded of R.W. Emerson’s words:   Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings, and lendings and losses; out of sickness and pain, out of wooing and worshiping; out of traveling, and voting, and watching, and caring;…

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