Tag: endurance
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Perspectives on Suffering
2 Corinthians 4:17 “For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison.” Suffering and afflictions are a part of life, every life. In the words above, Paul calls these afflictions “light and momentary.” This from one who later in this same letter to the church at Corinth…
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Enduring suffering
Colossians 1:24 “Now I rejoice in what I am suffering for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the church.” Is there anything going on in your life right now that you wish was otherwise? I just…
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Why such suffering?
Job 38:8-11 “Who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb, when I made clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band, and prescribed limits for it and set bars and doors, and said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be…
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The heart of Job
Job 13:15 “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him.” Death – it’s the worst thing that can be thrown at us. Job knew the Lord in such an intimate and trusting way, that even death – even if it came from God himself, would not shake him. Trust is just another word…
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Is there a better way?
Judges 10:6-16 “The people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. And they forsook the Lord and did not serve him. So the anger of the Lord was…
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What does it mean to “receive” God’s Word?
John 17:8 “For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them. . .” Mark 4:16-17 “And these are the ones sown on rocky ground: the ones who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy. And they have no root in themselves, but endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fall away.” What…
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Will it be worth it all, in the end?
John 17:5 “And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.” In the end, will it have been worth it all to have followed Jesus? Like Moses, who chose “rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin”…
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While we wait . . .
Psalm 130:5 “I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in His word I hope” Are you good at waiting for things? For example, how often have you heard, or thought, “I just can’t wait for this weather to change.” So often in life we find ourselves in positions of waiting, and more often…
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When trials come
Psalm 105:16-22 “When He (i.e. God) summoned a famine on the land and broke all supply of bread, He had sent a man ahead of them, Joseph, who was sold as a slave. His feet were hurt with fetters; his neck was put in a collar of iron; until what he had said came to pass, the Word of the Lord tested him. The…
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Abide
John 15:4 “Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.” The believer’s life if one of abiding, i.e., it is a fixed life, an enduring life, a steadfast life, an unwavering life. But what…
To Encourage You 