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If you have to go to war, you may find yourselves facing an enemy army that is bigger than yours and that has horses and chariots. But don’t be afraid! The LORD your God rescued you from Egypt, and he will help you fight. Deuteronomy 20:1
no matter what the obstacle is in the battle, no matter what opposition you face REMEMBER the Lord is with you and rescues you and fights for you.
TRUST HIM. TRUST HIM. TRUST HIM.
God is big enough to deal with teh obstacles and the oppostions.
he holds the universe in his hands.
the universe is tucked into his hand and he can see all and know all and is with us.
he is refining and transforming us – and part of that process is for us to learn to trust him in the fire. but in that fire we can trust that God is with us.
the enemy may be bigger than us and better equipped. they may have better technology and more manpower. but we are children of the most High God.
learn the lessons of faith.
and be still and know that God is God Almighty, Creator of Heaven and the Universe, the one who sent His Beloved Son to die for us that we might know him and be pure and holy and redeemed.
Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials.
Smith Wigglesworth
you have a testimony! you have a story! you have a story of faith! even if you are IN the great fight and IN the great test and IN the great trial you have a testimony of who God is and how he is working in your life. Testimonies are not just victory stories post the fight or when we get over the mountain – t hey are the declarations of faith we make as we are in battle and as we are climbing to the summit.
your testimony is your declaration that God makes springs to flow in the desert. your testimony is i was blind but i will see! that God is my healer. that by Christ we can do all things and that in him is the victory.
in hebrews we read about those that overcame and by faith made decisions and won the day… and we read about those that held onto the promise that God is our deliverer and the Almighty God even in the midst of their great persecution and sorrows.
our testimony is that we continue to have faith.
dont give up.
God doesnt give up on us.
he will not quit until he sees his purposes and plans unfolded and fulfilled in our life. and that includes our transformation into the character and likeness of his son Jesus Christ.
have faith. keep taking one step at a time. you have a testimony!
You will suffer for a while,
but God will make you
complete, steady, strong, and firm.
God will be in control forever!
Amen.
1 Peter 5:10-11
Christ suffered here on earth. Now you must be ready to suffer as he did, because suffering shows that you have stopped sinning. It means you have turned from your own desires and want to obey God for the rest of your life. 1 Peter 4:1-2 CEV
Suffering shows you have stopped sinning.
It shows you have turned from your own desires and want to obey God for the rest of your life.
Suffering accepts and embraces the will of God vs the will of self.
Suffering obeys God rather than our own selfish desires for pleasure or for self security.
Suffering trusts God to protect us vs our own ability and self protection.
Suffering trusts God, full stop.
Suffering demonstrates submission to the will and grace of God.
If you belong to Christ Jesus, you won’t be punished. The Holy Spirit will give you life that comes from Christ Jesus and will set you free from sin and death. The Law of Moses cannot do this, because our selfish desires make the Law weak. But God set you free when he sent his own Son to be like us sinners and to be a sacrifice for our sin. God used Christ’s body to condemn sin. He did this, so that we would do what the Law commands by obeying the Spirit instead of our own desires. People who are ruled by their desires think only of themselves. Everyone who is ruled by the Holy Spirit thinks about spiritual things. If our minds are ruled by our desires, we will die. But if our minds are ruled by the Spirit, we will have life and peace. Our desires fight against God, because they do not and cannot obey God’s laws. If we follow our desires, we cannot please God.
You are no longer ruled by your desires, but by God’s Spirit, who lives in you. People who don’t have the Spirit of Christ in them don’t belong to him. But Christ lives in you. So you are alive because God has accepted you, even though your bodies must die because of your sins. Yet God raised Jesus to life! God’s Spirit now lives in you, and he will raise you to life by his Spirit.
My dear friends, we must not live to satisfy our desires. If you do, you will die. But you will live, if by the help of God’s Spirit you say “No” to your desires. Only those people who are led by God’s Spirit are his children. God’s Spirit doesn’t make us slaves who are afraid of him. Instead, we become his children and call him our Father. God’s Spirit makes us sure that we are his children. His Spirit lets us know that together with Christ we will be given what God has promised. We will also share in the glory of Christ, because we have suffered with him. Romans 8:1-17 CEV
Suffering trusts God. When we suffer we are demonstrating in our life that we trust God to work in our lives and to rescue us from difficult circumstances and people and relationships and failings and hard times. It trusts God to be with us in the fire and the flood. (Isaiah 43:1-2) It trusts and surrenders to God.
Our natural inclination is to avoid suffering – at all and any cost. But we must live to obey God and to walk in his ways. Sometimes suffering happens because we are being obedient. Sometimes it happens as a byproduct of life.
Suffering can be physical or circumstantial or emotional or relational. It can be wtihin our control sometimes or sometimes it jsut happens around and to us. In all times of suffering we must listen to what God would have us do and we must obey the direction of the Word of God.
In great darkness great light WILL shine. We are never alone.
You have faith in God, whose power will protect you until the last day. Then he will save you, just as he has always planned to do. On that day you will be glad, even if you have to go through many hard trials for a while. Your faith will be like gold that has been tested in a fire. And these trials will prove that your faith is worth much more than gold that can be destroyed. They will show that you will be given praise and honor and glory when Jesus Christ returns. You have never seen Jesus, and you don’t see him now. But still you love him and have faith in him, and no words can tell how glad and happy you are to be saved. That’s why you have faith. 1 Peter 1:5-9
My friends, be glad, even if you have a lot of trouble. You know that you learn to endure by having your faith tested. But you must learn to endure everything, so that you will be completely mature and not lacking in anything. James 1:2-3
we need to be people who will choose personal holiness over comfort and the easy way out. we need to be people who will make the choice to obey rather than disobey. we need to make the opinion of God more important than teh opinion of others, or the opinon of ourselves. we need to trust God, no matter what and hold onto him. when the going gets tough we dont run away from God but run to him and find security and peace even in the storms. we must get it that he has a plan and a purpose and a destiny and that he continues to be God even when facing difficulties. in suffering God is still God, even more so.
Acts 8:2 At that time the church in Jerusalem suffered terribly. All of the Lord’s followers, except the apostles, were scattered everywhere in Judea and Samaria.
What a terrible and wonderful time for the church. It demonstrates how God uses all things for his purpose and glory – the persecution of the church scattered the believers all throughout Israel and Europe and Asia – which ment he Gospel was spread throughout the nations. What the enemy ment for evil – shutting the church down – God used for glory by increasing the church! this verse shows us how hard times and “contention” can be used by God to expand his kingdom, strengthen our faith and character and change the world. the suffering by the christians in the early church sent them out of jerusalem to find safe homes, away from people like saul who wanted to kill and imprison them. but more importantly it spread the gospel. is there contention in your life? are you suffering in an area? then turn it for the glory of God, use it for light. a friend of mine for the last 6 months has had to take her mother for chemo at hospital. she hated that her mum was so sick and that she had to have this horrible treatment. she hates that her life semi stopped and she spent most of her days at hospital, waiting in the waiting room. but as she looked around she saw other broken people, waiting for their loved ones who had cancer. she took the time to talk to them and encourage them and pray for them and share the good news and hope that christ gives. she was suffering but used that suffering place to bring light and peace.
Acts 8:4 The Lord’s followers who had been scattered went from place to place telling the good news.
for journalling sake and processing sake i’m blogging about my week. i think it has been the hardest – but in a way the most beautiful of my life. i say most beautiful because of the love and support of my friends and church family as we have walked togheter in grief, carried by teh grace of God.
last tuesday night one of our housegroup boys was killed in a car accident. he was 19. he had a girlfriend, who was in our housegroup too. he got saved and baptised last june.
i was one of the first people notified, after his family and his girlfriend. her brother sent me a text. i phoned him right away to make sure it wasnt a joke and to find out what had gone on. i then had to phone our housegroup and notify them.
we mostly all met at church where we sat and prayed and cried and laughed and shared. then relocated at our house, where we spent the day and night toghether – it was wednesday, housegroup night. we opened our house to not only our housegroup but anyone that wanted to come.
our pastor was on missions trip and due back on saturday morning. he had been out of hte country for 10 days.
our housegroup guy was semi estranged from family and they all lived up north. so spent quite a bit of time faciliating and talking to them on phone working out details for funeral.
thursday i went up with his girlfriend to view his body. i have never viewed a body before, or had a friend die for that matter, only grandparents and aunties/uncles. but i knew that she needed me and that housegruop also needed me. we met some of his family there.
that night his family decided that they would have the funeral at our church. which is awesome. so began organising and more facilitating. our housegroup guy was a new christian but proof of the radical transformation God can make. his nana is a christian but his sisters not.
i also helped make and do his funeral handout/order of service.
sunday was of course the first day at church. hard. good. hard. good to be with our church family and worship God and declare our trust in him.
i also spoke at the church childrens church outreach. which was awesome. about the call of God. mostly unchurched kids. i had said yes to the inviation to speak about 3 weeks ago and had talked with my hubby and God about whether to still do it on sunday in light of everything. but i figured God knew. and i could trust him to give me grace and strength and anointing. i was planning on going for the games and everything but just went in and spoke. it was beautiful moment. and beautiful as all the kids responded to wanting to know God’s love more and know his plan for their life kind of thing. beautiful to pray with them, including kids who had never been to church before. a real priv.
sunday we finalized the handout and printed it and folded it all with help of housegruop.
sunday night was our young adults church. i ended up having to service lead as the person that was ment to was just so tired and worn out and so i had sent her home. again, by the grace of God go it. good night.
we then set up the church for teh funeral today.
today it was his funeral.
it was a powerful and moving and encouraging and inspiring service.
i spoke on behalf of our housegroup, with them all beside me.
i talked about how this young guy had stamped himself on our lives and how he loved God and how God changed his life. i knew he would want me to challenge people to find their peace and hope in God. the young guys afterwards said that they liked how i tributed our friend but also put the gospel in there plain as.
i also was blessed to be able to talk with family members who i know didnt know God. one guy i connected with was his uncle, a pig hunter and about 6.5 tall. i saw him break down before the service so went up to my hubby and said i want to hug him, yip i am going to hug him. he bawled on my shoulder and i talked with him about how he we loved his nephew and abotu God’s love.
i also got to talk with his course mates. rough round the edges guys. but who were really impacted by his life and death.
i was involved in *a moment*. i define a moment as a life defining moment. somsething that was profound and eternal changing.
my friends girlfriend was walking to the doors with his sister and they were talkign about the driver. okay i confess i was slow, and overtired and i didnt get it until i saw who we were going to talk to. by driver, they ment the driver of the car that crashed and had the accident my friend died in. the driver is a young guy, so young. my friends girlfriend went up and hugged this yuong guy and said i dont hate you. she then went away with another friend and i stepped in and hugged him and talked to him a bit more and told him we forgave him (not that i felt we needed to forgive him but i think he needed to hear it) and that it was okay – some things just happen – and that if he needed anyone to talk to or anything that we were here, this is our church etc. i told him God loves him and figured this might be the one chance and went for it and told him God loves him. i noticed two parental people standing nearby crying, so after talking to this very white (as in white with shock) young guy i went up to them and asked if htey were his parents and hugged them too. they said thanks for what we had done and that it was so beautiful. i get what they mean. it was a moment.
today was a day of celebration and grace.
we celebrated our friend. we celebrated his life and his God.
we were carried by the grace of God.
my conversations – not to brag on me here – but to record and to give kudos to God – were all about God and how my friend had found him and believed in him. my prayer is that they find hope and peace with God.
Luke 18:1-8 Jesus told his disciples a story about how they should keep on praying and never give up:
In a town there was once a judge who didn’t fear God or care about people. In that same town there was a widow who kept going to the judge and saying, “Make sure that I get fair treatment in court.” For a while the judge refused to do anything. Finally, he said to himself, “Even though I don’t fear God or care about people, I will help this widow because she keeps on bothering me. If I don’t help her, she will wear me out.” The Lord said: Think about what that crooked judge said. Won’t God protect his chosen ones who pray to him day and night? Won’t he be concerned for them? He will surely hurry and help them. But when the Son of Man comes, will he find on this earth anyone with faith?
Parable of the persistent widow
So lets break it down… The story is about a woman, whose husband died – she was a widow – and was done some injustice and so goes to court to sort the stuff out.
Anyway she gets this judge, who doesn’t care about God and doesn’t really care about what people think about him either. He didn’t care about his reputation and didn’t care about his character. In commentaries he is often called the UNJUST JUDGE…. Really not the type of judge you want to go up for justice to see….
Now the widow had a strategy and some determination.
“its not the size of the dog in the fight
but the size of the fight in the dog.”
This woman may of being a widow – implication being that she was weak and powerless and downtrodden and grief stricken and alone and unprotected…
But she had a big fight on the inside and she was not going to give up.
She kept on going and seeing that judge and presenting her case until he got to the point where he said ENOUGH!
“Even though I don’t fear God or care about people, I will help this widow because she keeps on bothering me. If I don’t help her, she will wear me out.”
The widow had FAITH in the judge that he would grant her justice if she persisted.
Now lets make one thing real clear…. The judge is NOT God
Who do we have faith in?
God
The parable is comparing the VAST DIFFERNCE between the unjust judge and our God.
It says in verse 7:
Won’t God protect his chosen ones who pray to him day and night? Won’t he be concerned for them? He will surely hurry and help them. CEV
And shall not God avenge His own elect who cry day and night to Him. I say to you that He will avenge them speedily. NKJV
Sometimes I think we put God in the same box as the judge. Uncaring. Unlistening. Unjust. God is a just judge. He has compassion on us and loves us. He knows the number of hairs on your head and the number of hairs on your toes. He hears your every thought. His every thought towards you is more numerous than the sands on all the beaches of the world. His love for you is everlasting and he gave his son to pay the penalty of our sin so that we can know him and be called his children. he is the same today as he was yesterday and will be tomorrow. His word is truth and alive. He holds the universe in the palm of his hand and everything together with his word. Our name is engraved on the palm of his hand.
How do you see God? Who is God to you? How do you see him spending “his days?”
Is he sitting up in heaven twiddling his thumbs and making cheese toasties?
NO!
Romans 8:31-32 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? Truly He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?
God is personal. Near. With us. Close.
Okay what about all the times it seems that God is not answering our prayers?
There are times when it seems God is not answering our prayers, let alone listening….
Sometimes we go through hard times and it seems that nothing is working and God has taken a vacation to fiji or is in quarantine with the swine flu… right?
Does he not see? Does he not know? Of course he does! Of course he knows! And of course he is doing something about it all…. Which may include using it to transform us and shape us and refine us and all that behind the scenes stuff that on paper we say yes to but in real life hurts like spit.
Back in the days, when Israel just crossed over the Jordan and was taking over the land God kept some of the bad guys in the land so that the Israelites would learn war – and learn faith in him.
Judges 3:1 And the LORD had another reason for letting these enemies stay. The Israelites needed to learn how to fight in war, just as their ancestors had done. Each new generation would have to learn by fighting CEV
He kept them there to teach the Israelites how to fight and stand and have faith and overcome.
He was always teaching. He was transforming them.
Just like he is with us.
Where is God in the hard times?
With us
Teaching us
Shaping us
Refining us.
Transforming us.
Romans 8:30 For whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son.
Romans 12:1-2 I beseech you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, in order to prove by you what is that good and pleasing and perfect will of God.
Even Miley Cyrus gets that (and I’m NOT trying to be cool and relevant here…) but as I was writing this miley cyrus came on tv and was singing a song about “keeping the faith, its all about the climb” and I was good on ya girl. That is so true…. Its all about the climb. Its all about the journey. Its all about learning and growing and faith and trust.
In the hard times God has given us each other. Serious! We are ment to be like family, encouraging each other, giving practical support, helping. Nothing any of us face needs to be faced alone.
Faith in God is not about gritting your teeth and bearing it. Its not about faking it till you make it. its not about a cliché. Its not about happy happy joy joy on the outside but pain and worry on the inside.
God is real and his help is real and his support is real and his solutions are real.
Remember….
He has compassion on us and loves us. He knows the number of hairs on your head and the number of hairs on your toes. He hears your every thought. His every thought towards you is more numerous than the sands on all the beaches of the world. His love for you is everlasting. He is the same today as he was yesterday and will be tomorrow. His word is truth and alive. Our name is engraved on the palm of his hand.
In the hard times we need to remember who God is. This gives us faith. This keeps us going. This keeps us putting one foot in front of the other and saying Yes God – I trust in you.
This is how we’ve been really learning and living this message in our lives…
The widow in this parable was going through a hard time. Her husband was dead. She was alone and struggling. Without the judges intervention things were just going to get worse. Her situation was hard. She kept on persevering and bringing her case to the judge though. She didn’t give up.
It is a challenge to have faith. Life is hard. Things happen. But remember WHO your faith is in. Does he not seem big enough to work it out? To know what is going on? And to walk with you through the hard time, making good come out of it.
The purpose of this parable, the purpose of what Jesus says here is to encourage us to have faith, to press in, to believe in God, to trust him – to pray and NOT GIVE UP.
We need to be people who will dare to trust God!
We need to be people who will dare to have faith!
Nothing is impossible for the Lord!
He created the universe.
He laid the foundations of the world.
He breathed out he stars.
That circumstance in your life that you are worried about is not impossible to God!
Your future is not impossible for God to work in and work out!
Your past is not impossible for God because we know that he forgives us of all sin and that he then uses all things and turns them for good and for glory and his plans and purposes.
Your today is not impossible for God.
Your past is not impossible for God.
Your tomorrow is not impossible for God.
NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD!
Never give up.
Never give up.
Never give up.
Keep having faith. Keep trusting. Keep standing.
“This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” Winston Churchill – wartime prime minister who led Britain to victory in World War Two.
i love the word BUT.
i love the BUTs in the bible.
now read this the right way – God puts great BUTs in our lives!
Psalm 27:1-3
You, LORD, are the light that keeps me safe.
I am not afraid of anyone.
You protect me, and I have no fears.
Brutal people may attack and try to kill me,
but they will stumble.
Fierce enemies may attack,
but they will fall.
Armies may surround me,
but I won’t be afraid;
war may break out,
but I will trust you.
awesome eh! though the world looks dark BUT i will trust you God. life may be difficult BUT i make the choice to believe that God sees and knows and is at work. i may have obstacles BUT God is with us. we may want to fix everything ourselves and work it all but BUT we should cast our cares upon God who cares for us.
a simple word, a small word, but with lots of power and meaning. make the BUT real in your life!
Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials. Smith Wigglesworth
There is a fine line when talking about testing and trials in some christian groups.
Some want to point the blame for all hard times and bad hair days solely at God.
Others give all credit to the devil.
Others discount any spiritual activity and think that life is just life.
Some think that to attribute suffering to God is to deny his goodness and greatness.
Others will say it makes God plain cruel and sadistic.
My own experience is that God is great and good and almighty and knows all and sees all.
Which means he also sees the hidden intention of my heart and the sin that seeks to overcome me.
He sees my wounds and my pain and my fears and my doubts
There is a greater plan for my life than for me to just exist and breathe.
Life is more than breathing.
And in the spirit of that i believe that our trials and testings are sometimes gifts from God to transform us and shape us and draw us closer to him and to learn more about him and his ways and to grow more mature and more christlike.
As gold is refined in the fire so we are refined in the fire of life.
Sometimes life just happens.
Sometimes the devil comes with his firey darts to shake us.
Sometimes God refines us.
With in the fire and the flood Jesus is with us.
We are never alone or forsaken and we are never tested beyond what we can endure.
And God is with us.
There is a purpose and a plan.
Sometimes it does good to remember that and to take all the good and the bad and the ugly and to live it to the maximum taking full advantage of what God may be saying in that time….
Go to Him who gives us rest and calls us to draw near and cast our cares upon him.
Sometimes i think the hard times are harder because we are not doing that.
We are trying to walk alone in the fire and flood instead of relying upon God who gives us peace and renews our strength.
We forget we are spiritual creatures and children of God.
We forget God is our refuge and that we hide in him.
We forget to learn.
Its not so much about giving credit where credit is due but in all things giving glory to God who is able to work all things in our lives for his glory and purpose.
He sees all and knows all and only on the other side of eternity may we understand the road we have walked on and the greater purpose of our trials and testing.
Again, rest in God, cast your cares upon him, find your peace in him.
He is with you.
”God’s wisdom burns away all the impurities in a person for one purpose: to leave them fit for divine union.
The fire that consumes us – utterly – is His highest wisdom.
This fire gradually consumes all that is earthly; it takes out all foreign matter and separates these things from the gold. The fire must melt and dissolve this dross by force so that it can rid the gold of every alien particle. Over and over again, the gold must be cast into the furnace until it has lost every trace of pollution. Oh, how many times the gold is plunged back into the fire – far, far more times than seem necessary. Yet you can be sure the Forger sees impurities no one else can see. The gold must return to the fire again and again until positive proof has been established that it can be no further purified.
Now the gold is fit for the most exquisite workmanship. In the future, if the gold should get dirty and seem to lose its beauty, it is nothing more than an accidental impurity which touches only the surface. This foreign particle which attaches itself to the surface is a far cry from having corruption deep within the hidden nature of the gold.”
Madam Guyon from 100 Days in the Secret Place
This is my last day of the chapter of collection of passages in 100 Days In The Secret Place dedicated to “The Way Of The Cross.” Reading this book has been a real transformer, a challenge to change, a magnifying glass on my heart, where I have felt naked, exposed, weak and stretched. I have felt that I have been in the furnace of God as he has exposed weaknesses and strongholds and fears and frustrations. Fingers crossed (aka praying!) that by reading this book I will be a “newer” and “nicer” person – that I will be more like Jesus. It has been a process. But worth it.
This process of transformation for me can been summed up by these passages in the bible:
John 15:1-8 “I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the gardener. 2 He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit, and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more. 3 You have already been pruned and purified by the message I have given you. 4 Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me. 5 “Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing. 6 Anyone who does not remain in me is thrown away like a useless branch and withers. Such branches are gathered into a pile to be burned. 7 But if you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want, and it will be granted! 8 When you produce much fruit, you are my true disciples. This brings great glory to my Father.
Matthew16:24-25 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 25For whoever wants to save his life[a] will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it.
In all of our lives there are things that God is working on and transforming in our lives.
There are things we need to lay down and surrender.
There are things we need to obey.
There are things we need to deny ourselves about.
All and all for the glory of God and the transformation of ourselves for the service of God.
God refines us and purifies us.
He uses people and circumstances to transform us and shape us. We often laugh about praying for the fruit of Patience, and then come across all the bad slow drivers, slow checkout operators and people “sent to try us”. But in a way that is exactly what happens!
In these situations we must keep our eyes upon Jesus, the author and PERFECTOR of our faith. we must continue to trust Him. we can be honest, because sometimes it does hurt. we must try not to hold back, but to open wide to his grace, mercy and fire. holding back restrains the hand of God, but an open heart gives God full permission to hurt and heal and bring transformation.
2 Timothy 2:20-22 In a wealthy home some utensils are made of gold and silver, and some are made of wood and clay. The expensive utensils are used for special occasions, and the cheap ones are for everyday use. 21 If you keep yourself pure, you will be a special utensil for honorable use. Your life will be clean, and you will be ready for the Master to use you for every good work. 22 Run from anything that stimulates youthful lusts. Instead, pursue righteous living, faithfulness, love, and peace
I’ve never said it would be easy.
God doesn’t say it would be easy.
He does promise to be WITH us through the flames and floods.
And that is good news.
That gives me the courage to walk on in life.
today, if you’re feeling the pressure of life and are stressed and going through hard times try and get God’s perspective on what is going on. is he teaching us something? is he training us? is he shaping us? is he refining us? is he drawing us closer? is he transforming us? is he correcting us? is he comforting us?
remember Jesus calls us to come to him and find rest. he calls us to cast our cares upon him because he cares for us. he calls us to abide in him and hide in him.
in the hard times you will find hope and peace and strength with Jesus.
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