“My Hope”
Jeremiah 42:17; II Timothy 3:1
This morning about 7:30a.m. an old friend and dear precious lady, got her promotion from this troublesome life and is now breathing, without labor, the clean celestial air of Gods Holy Heaven. And glory to God, she has just now begun to live!
The way of the believer is not always filled with fragrance of roses, bright days and peaceful contented summers. There are many storms, trials and dark days, clouds blot out the sunny days sometimes and darkness falls in the most critical times, and we cry for light and understanding. Solomon says of our path in this life that, “Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.” (Proverbs 3:17). When we have our trust in God, no matter what our circumstances are, we can experience happiness, even through tears, because our hope and bliss is yet over there. Our lives are filled with disappointments, but our course is taking us to, “the shining light, that shines more and more unto the perfect day, (Proverbs 4:18). Sometimes we find ourselves in the turmoil of the storms, the skies are black, and it seems that the elements are going to take us under, and we say, “If I was truly a child of God, this would not be happening." But remember dear Child, the very best of Christians go through trials and tribulations, we must bear the cross. You see, in the Christians life, you are either in a storm, going into a storm or coming out of a storm. We have weak and timid times, and our path is quite smooth, and then we learn to get stronger in our spiritual walk as we mature into grown-ups; responsible saints. We then begin to see that the winds and waves, trials and tempests are there to exercise our faith and to lean not on our own dependance, but His.
“I’ll See”
In Him, I’m grounded, rooted and firm,
In Him, I’ll rest, I’ll live and learn.
In the sad evil days, for a short while I’ll cope;
But one day I’ll see Heaven, His face, and my hope.
~Tom Milam
Daily Jewel:
“Our hope and bliss is yet over there.”
Bible Reading Schedule: 1 Kings 19-20
Weekly Memory Verses: Romans 8:35-39
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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