The following is so true, so wise. As Thomas Wilcox once said, “Judge not Christ’s love by providences, but by promises.” Here’s Jon Bloom:
“Spatial disorientation” is what an aircraft pilot experiences when he flies into weather conditions that prevent him from being able see the horizon or the ground. Points of reference that guide his [...]
The following is from Sinclair Ferguson (whose Scottish accent is at least as cool as Alistair Begg’s if not more so, IMHO):
[W]here we cannot understand we can still trust.
This requires a deliberate commitment of the mind. That hurts when our natural instinct is to let our minds and emotions dwell on our pain, loss, and [...]
How true!
From C.H. Spurgeon:
‘I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.’ (Hosea 2:14)
The goodness of God sees us allured by sin, and it resolves to try upon us the more powerful allurements of love. Do we not remember when the Lover of our souls first cast a spell [...]
As believers, things may befall us which are not at all good for us in any way, shape, or form.
Worse, perhaps, we may not understand why any of these things befell us. After all, not every saint can look back on a trial as Joseph did and declare, “As for you, you meant evil against [...]
Brethren, let us not judge how much God loves us by how things seem to be going in our lives. Don’t think God doesn’t love you because this or that bad thing happened to you.
On the contrary, everything could be going perfectly well. We could legitimately say to ourselves, “I am rich, I have prospered, [...]
I wanted to say a few words about overcoming trials and afflictions.
The more our gaze is turned upon Christ as our first love, the more we value his cross and his gospel as the things of first importance, the more we abide in him by abiding in his word, and especially in sitting underneath a [...]
Is not our greatest consolation in trials and afflictions Christ himself? Indeed he is. As the prophet Isaiah says (43:2): “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not [...]
In the midst of our trials, God is trustworthy. The bud may have a bitter taste, but sweet will be the flower.
As Christians, we can trust the Lord because of who he is and what he has done for us. Who is he? What is the character of our God? God is sovereign and has [...]
