tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502171450450034535.post6344771807879893126..comments2023-10-28T07:04:25.925-04:00Comments on A Theology of Desire: It may be a ---long--- waitUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502171450450034535.post-81875402176813068962011-05-26T11:00:42.853-04:002011-05-26T11:00:42.853-04:00@Ike: Interesting that you mention that our Lord d...@Ike: Interesting that you mention that our Lord does not make plain what He is doing. It's something I've been thinking about writing as a follow up to this post. His communication with the Israelites shifted once they reached the promised land...<br /><br />Thanks for the reminder about trust. I am very grateful that He has given me a large measure of faith, which makes trust much easier. I am mostly able to walk in trust and hope.<br /><br />Be still, my soul, be still.Suzanne Marie DeWitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09724481265474654929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502171450450034535.post-43239294823492781032011-05-26T10:57:22.167-04:002011-05-26T10:57:22.167-04:00@Marie2: Thank you for the encouragement! Sometime...@Marie2: Thank you for the encouragement! Sometimes I wonder what the hardest part was for them. There were so many hardships; the passage "Never again will my people be despised" spoke to me particularly.<br /><br />Praying for the day of restoration...Suzanne Marie DeWitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09724481265474654929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502171450450034535.post-91654608893643309552011-05-22T22:50:43.432-04:002011-05-22T22:50:43.432-04:00These bad things happened to you because I intend ...These bad things happened to you because I intend to work it together for your good (Romans 8). <br />These happened so that you would rely more on God who raises the dead (2 Corinthians 1). <br />This happened so that the gold and silver of your faith would be refined (1 Peter 1). <br />This thorn is so that the power of Christ would be magnified in your weakness (2 Corinthians 12). <br /> <br />God cannot make plain all he is doing, because there are millions and millions and millions and millions of effects of every event in our lives, the good and the bad. God guides them all. They all have micro purposes and macro purposes. He cannot tell us all of them because our brains can’t hold all of them. <br />Trust does not demand more than God has told us. And he has given us immeasurably precious promises that he is in control of all things and only does good to his children. And he has given us a very thick book where we can read story after story after story about how he rules for the good of his people.Ikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09595879576794400791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502171450450034535.post-31954907163125540712011-05-20T08:00:39.029-04:002011-05-20T08:00:39.029-04:00The 7th Plague (Exodus 9:13-35)
Powerful hail stor...The 7th Plague (Exodus 9:13-35)<br />Powerful hail storms...sounds familar.<br /><br />The Eighth Plague (Exodus 10:1-20)<br />The locust devoured everything that survived the hail storm.<br />hmmmmm...<br /><br />The Ninth Plague (Exodus 10:21-29)<br />Darkness over the entire land for three days - but the Israelites had light in Goshen.<br /><br />Now for the good part-<br />Joel 2:25 (The Message)<br /><br /> 25-27 "I'll make up for the years of the locust, <br /> the great locust devastation—<br />Locusts savage, locusts deadly, <br /> fierce locusts, locusts of doom,<br />That great locust invasion <br /> I sent your way.<br />You'll eat your fill of good food. <br /> You'll be full of praises to your God,<br />The God who has set you back on your heels in wonder. <br /> Never again will my people be despised.<br />You'll know without question <br /> that I'm in the thick of life with Israel,<br />That I'm your God, yes, your God, <br /> the one and only real God.<br />Never again will my people be despised.<br /><br />John 1:5 (The Message)<br /><br /> 3-5Everything was created through him; <br /> nothing—not one thing!— <br /> came into being without him. <br /> What came into existence was Life, <br /> and the Life was Light to live by. <br /> The Life-Light blazed out of the darkness; <br /> the darkness couldn't put it out.Diane Marie Hallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04179288189765350548noreply@blogger.com