Believing God Can Do the Impossible in 2020
God takes that which doesn’t make sense, and even seems impossible, and uses it for His glory and our good.
God takes that which doesn’t make sense, and even seems impossible, and uses it for His glory and our good.
When we carry extra loads, our minds become clouded and, in our weariness, we become less effective parents.
Keep giving your best to the Lord, not as a means to gain God’s favor, but striving towards heaven because God has given us his best gift – Jesus Christ!
Today’s youth need to know that though the world can be a scary place, our lives as Christians are characterized by joy.
In Christ, there is no “if only,” for He is the One who loves us more than we could ever know and calls us His very own!
Our kids may need the reminder that, while these times are certainly challenging, they are not outside the realm of God’s redemption. Sin always leaves us weary because it’s difficult for us to resist the temptation to try and break its chains by our own strength.
Longfellow digs beneath his pain to something so engrained in him as a follower of Christ that it has to surface, even in the darkest of times: the Gospel.
When we sing this hymn, we are putting ourselves in the shoes of a first century Jew who is longing to be free from exile, oppression, and suffering… Here we are, two centuries later, not needing to stretch our imaginations too much to understand what that longing would have been like.
In unconditional love, God not only calls me child but heir to all he possesses. In the light of this glorious truth, my inadequacies fade in importance.
