Written by Chuck Swindoll, these encouraging devotional thoughts are published seven days per week.
Friends give comfort. We find strength near them. They bear fruit that provides nourishment and encouragement. When something troublesome occurs in our life, we pick up the phone and call a friend, needing the comfort he or she provides.
I know of no greater need today than the need for joy. Unexplainable, contagious joy. Outrageous joy.
This variety of trials is like different temperature settings on God's furnace. The settings are adjusted to burn off our dross, to temper us or soften us according to what meets our highest need.
I have come to this conclusion: Doing the will of God is rarely easy and uncomplicated. Instead, it is often difficult and convoluted. Or...mysterious.
Can't seem to get where you want to go fast enough? Leave it to God.
Mother Nature didn't make me. Fate did not shape me, neither was I just a biological combination of mother and dad in a moment of sexual passion. Nor was I conceived through blind chance.
He is the Potter, we are the clay. He is the one who gives the commands; we are the ones who obey.
Do you know what I've discovered about the Lord? He doesn't give wisdom on credit. He doesn't advance you a bundle of insight....
And I've got news for those who struggle with God's timing. You may not live to see God's time completely fulfilled.
The tyranny of the urgent will always out-shout the essential nature of the important...if we let it.
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