Recently encouraged by the following thoughts. Hope they encourage you too.....
"Huge waves that would frighten an ordinary swimmer produce a tremendous thrill for the surfer who has ridden them. Things we try to avoid and fight against are the very things that produce abundant joy in us. "We are more than conquerors through Him""in all these things";not in spite of them, but in the midst of them. A saint doesn't know the joy of the Lord in spite of tribulation, but because of it. The undeminished radience, which is the result of abundant joy, is not built on anything passing, but on the love of God that nothing can change. And the experiences of life, whether they are everyday events or terrifying ones, are powerless to "separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord"
My Utmost for His Highest Oswalt Chambers Updated Version.
Your God is present among you,
a strong Warrior there to save you.
Happy to have you back, he'll calm you with his love
and delight you with his songs. Zeph 3:17b (The Message)
