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Shelter-In-Place Faith
Homeland Security uses an interesting instruction to citizens when their region has a developing and dangerous situation: “Shelter-In-Place” I like this term, a lot. It suggests a faith-filled waiting–the perfect life-code for those who follow Christ. “Wait on the Lord, be of good courage, and He shall strengthen thine heart.” Psalm 27 “THE expression, “Wait on the Lord,” does not mean so much a rendering of service to the Lord, as a waiting for the Lord, a waiting before Him, to see what is His will for us. We do not understand that it has the thought of ministering to the Lord, as a servant would wait on his master,…
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Our True Fortress Is Not Ourselves
Truly my soul finds rest in God; My salvation comes from him. Truly he is my rock and my salvation; He is my fortress, I will never be shaken. Psalm 62:1-2 Please follow and like us:
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Worry Dethroned
I’m a natural worrier. The twist of my gut, the contortions of my mind intended to untwist the gut, the acceptance of my good plan, then the knowing there is no good plan, not really. The twist of my gut, the contortions of my mind intended . . . around and around. Minutes, sometimes hours. A few mornings ago, a truth came to me through that little portal, the one we all possess. The one where the Spirit whispers, “Look!” “W.O.R.R.Y. doesn’t work. You know it doesn’t, even when you think it does. It’s entirely backwards: Y.R.R.O.W” I jotted down the letters on a piece of paper and the acrostic…
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How to Rest, St. Augustine
“Our hearts, O Lord, were made for you, and they are restless until the rest in you.” St. Augustine (354-430 A.D.) Please follow and like us:
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Hudson Taylor on Rest
“The branch of the vine does not worry, and toil, and rush here to seek for sunshine, and there to find rain. No; it rests in union and communion with the vine; and at the right time, and in the right way, is the right fruit found on it. Let us so abide in the Lord Jesus.” Hudson Taylor Please follow and like us:
