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Beloved Warrior
HOPE DOES NOT DISAPPOINT.
ROMANS 5:5
THE RISEN CHRIST WILL COME FROM
HEAVEN TO TAKE HIS OWN TO HEAVEN!
With every birthday I celebrate I realize that God has given me a life of experiences. I also know that I am coming to the short end of those days and I want to make every year count. If God would have me teach you anything, it is the truth that He has taught me more through so-called disappointments, sorrows, and trials than I have learned from all of the so-called good times.
Always, I repeat, always, culture within your heart a hope in God that always looks up, disdaining self pity and reckoning that your hope in God will overcome all adversity.
Add to that, while upon this earth, our Savior, Himself, was called a "Man of Sorrows". By His example, we know that the victory at the end of His sorrows came about because of His unfailing hope that what His Father said would prevail.
My little life? What is that to God? I say, very much. Consider,
"What is man that Thou art mindful of him, or the son of man that thou visiteth him?"
As the word of the old hymn tells us:
Why should I feel discouraged? Why should the shadows come?
Why should my heart be weary, and long for heaven and home?
With Jesus as my portion, my constant Friend is He;
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me." (sel.)
ROMANS 5:5
THE RISEN CHRIST WILL COME FROM
HEAVEN TO TAKE HIS OWN TO HEAVEN!
With every birthday I celebrate I realize that God has given me a life of experiences. I also know that I am coming to the short end of those days and I want to make every year count. If God would have me teach you anything, it is the truth that He has taught me more through so-called disappointments, sorrows, and trials than I have learned from all of the so-called good times.
Always, I repeat, always, culture within your heart a hope in God that always looks up, disdaining self pity and reckoning that your hope in God will overcome all adversity.
Add to that, while upon this earth, our Savior, Himself, was called a "Man of Sorrows". By His example, we know that the victory at the end of His sorrows came about because of His unfailing hope that what His Father said would prevail.
My little life? What is that to God? I say, very much. Consider,
"What is man that Thou art mindful of him, or the son of man that thou visiteth him?"
As the word of the old hymn tells us:
Why should I feel discouraged? Why should the shadows come?
Why should my heart be weary, and long for heaven and home?
With Jesus as my portion, my constant Friend is He;
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me." (sel.)
