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Someday the shroud will be removed altogether and we’ll live where God lives with nothing in between. For now we get only glimpses of him “through a shroud vaguely,” but there we’ll gaze upon him and see him as he actually is! I trust we’ll be able to stand the sight. In the meantime, we …
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I wonder… I wonder about God a lot. I used to wonder if he existed, but since I got that settled (to my complete satisfaction), my wonder is now of a different sort. “Wonder” itself has a number of connotations, some of which are part of the kind of wonder I have about God. There’s …
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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns. Anne Lamott “Trust for a miracle with all your heart” is not exactly what Solomon wrote. He did write, however, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart” (Proverbs 3). Trusting in him helps me live peacefully …
We can know some of the principles on which God operates and thus can trust him despite appearances, but we are simply not in a position to know most of the relevant facts that would explain the specifics of his interaction in any given instance. Gregory Boyd I prayed and prayed for my marriage to …
This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God... 1 …
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