Stillness

Psalm 46

God Is Our Fortress

1God is our refuge and strength,
a very present help in trouble.
2Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way,
though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea,
3
though its waters roar and foam,
though the mountains tremble at its swelling.
Selah
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Psalm 73

This Psalm has profoundly impacted my life over the last few years… especially verses 25 and 26, which I claimed as my theme verses my senior year in college and which have been following me ever since!  Pick up a Bible and read Psalm 73 and see if you can’t relate to the writer’s struggle… torn between things of this earth and things of eternity.  Continue reading “Psalm 73”

Our Great, Unseen Hope

We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.  Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.  For in this hope we were saved.  But hope that is seen is no hope at all.  Who hopes for what he already has?  But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.  Romans 8:22-25

Do you groan inwardly for release from a world of pain and sin?  Do you feel out of place?  Do you wait eagerly for a home that you have never seen, a Savior you know and love, but have never touched?  If you are saved in Jesus, have you thought on your great, unseen hope today?  Continue reading “Our Great, Unseen Hope”