Weekly Thing (ish)
Hello friends,
My apologies for not writing the Weekly Thing for a few weeks! To give you an insight about how the Weekly comes about, whenever I find myself particularly struggling it is difficult for me to know what to write about. As you may be able to guess from the emails I have sent over the summer, God has certainly been doing a lot of work to grow me more into the likeness of Christ. Recently, I’ve been pushed to continue to trust Him as He turns my plans upside down and into something better. I’ve also gone through mourning as I learned of the death of a college friend.
Through difficulties, I’ve always believed that God pushes us to trust Him more and humble us. At least, this is the way He’s worked difficult times in my own life to show me how much I need Him. God is truly good in this way. I know I can go to the Lord with these things but what is just as important to remember is that I need God just s much in relaxed times as I do in difficult times. God is consistently loving, powerful, comforting, challenging, and always available to listen… and always worthy of praise. A song that reminds me of the goodness of God in difficult times is “Blessed Be:”
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Blessed be your name,
When the sun’s shining down on me
When the world’s all as it should be
Blessed be your name
Blessed be your name
On the road marked with suffering
Though there’s pain in the offering
Blessed be your name
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Like a good father and better, our heavenly Father is always there. 1 John says that God is Love, and elsewhere it says that love is “patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres” (1 Corinthians 13). How amazing to know a God like that and more is our Father!
If you’re facing confusing circumstances yourself, I pray this encourages you… or that God will use it when those times come. Take heart and know that God has a good plan for you.
In love and in Him
Your sister,
Yvonne
My apologies for not writing the Weekly Thing for a few weeks! To give you an insight about how the Weekly comes about, whenever I find myself particularly struggling it is difficult for me to know what to write about. As you may be able to guess from the emails I have sent over the summer, God has certainly been doing a lot of work to grow me more into the likeness of Christ. Recently, I’ve been pushed to continue to trust Him as He turns my plans upside down and into something better. I’ve also gone through mourning as I learned of the death of a college friend.
Through difficulties, I’ve always believed that God pushes us to trust Him more and humble us. At least, this is the way He’s worked difficult times in my own life to show me how much I need Him. God is truly good in this way. I know I can go to the Lord with these things but what is just as important to remember is that I need God just s much in relaxed times as I do in difficult times. God is consistently loving, powerful, comforting, challenging, and always available to listen… and always worthy of praise. A song that reminds me of the goodness of God in difficult times is “Blessed Be:”
--
Blessed be your name,
When the sun’s shining down on me
When the world’s all as it should be
Blessed be your name
Blessed be your name
On the road marked with suffering
Though there’s pain in the offering
Blessed be your name
--
Like a good father and better, our heavenly Father is always there. 1 John says that God is Love, and elsewhere it says that love is “patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres” (1 Corinthians 13). How amazing to know a God like that and more is our Father!
If you’re facing confusing circumstances yourself, I pray this encourages you… or that God will use it when those times come. Take heart and know that God has a good plan for you.
In love and in Him
Your sister,
Yvonne