Notes of Faith June 2, 2023
The Cure for Disappointment
Grace for the Moment
by Max Lucado
I am the Lord, the God of every person on the earth. Nothing is impossible for Me. — Jeremiah 32:27
We need to hear that God is still in control.
We need to hear that it’s not over until He says so.
We need to hear that life’s mishaps and tragedies are not a reason to bail out. They are simply a reason to sit tight.
Corrie ten Boom used to say, “When the train goes through a tunnel and the world gets dark, do you jump out? Of course not. You sit still and trust the engineer to get you through.”
The way to deal with discouragement? The cure for disappointment? Go back and read the story of God. Read it again and again. Be reminded that you aren’t the first person to weep. And you aren’t the first person to be helped.
Read the story and remember, the story is yours!
~ He Still Moves Stones
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God is for you.
God Is For You
He will rejoice over you. — Zephaniah 3:17
God is for you. Turn to the sidelines; that’s God cheering your run. Look past the finish line; that’s God applauding your steps. Listen for Him in the bleachers, shouting your name.
Too tired to continue? He’ll carry you.
Too discouraged to fight? He’s picking you up.
God is for you. Had He a calendar, your birthday would be circled. If he drove a car, your name would be on His bumper. If there’s a tree in Heaven, He’s carved your name in the bark.
“Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne?” God asks in Isaiah 49:15 (NIV).
What a bizarre question. Can you mothers imagine feeding your infant and then later asking, “What was that baby’s name?” No. I’ve seen you care for your young. You stroke the hair, you touch the face, you sing the name over and over. Can a mother forget? No way. But “even if she could forget her children, I will not forget you,” God pledges (Isaiah 49:15).
Excerpted from Grace for the Moment by Max Lucado, copyright Max Lucado.
As we move through the years and become more feeble, our hard drive (our minds) not functioning as they used to, our joints clicking, the society in which we live becoming more and more difficult financially and ungodly, wrong is right and right is wrong…we must realize that God is still in control and right beside us providing the grace that we need for the moment. The back of the book says that those who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ come out on the other side of all earthly experience as winners! Eternal life with the God of creation and our lives is nothing to shake a stick at. It is as real as the judgment that will come on those who do not believe, worship and serve the Lord. It is eternal! God is for you. Come to Him today in humble faith and receive all of God’s blessings forevermore!
Pastor Dale