He saw you cast into a river you didn't request. He saw you betrayed by those you love. He saw you in your own garden of gnarled trees and sleeping friends. He saw you staring into the pit of your own failures and the mouth of your own grave. He saw you in your own garden of Gethsamane and he didn't want you to be alone... He would rather go to hell for you than to heaven without you.
We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night, but those are just the benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing God.
We see a hearse; we think sorrow. We see a grave; we think despair. We hear of a death, we think of a loss. Not so in heaven. When heaven sees a breathless body, it sees the vacated cocoon and the liberated butterfly.
I choose gentleness...Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it only be in praise. If I clench my fist, may it only be in prayer.
If I make a demand, may it be only of myself.
Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.
A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.
You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman.
God loves you just the way you are, but He refuses to leave you that way. He wants you to be like Jesus.
You are the only you God made...God made you and broke the mold.
The past does not have to be your prison. You have a voice in your destiny. You have a say in your life. You have a choice in the path you take.
If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning...Face it friend. He is crazy about you!
He loves each one of us like there is only one of us to love.
God rewards those who seek Him. Not those who seek doctrine of religion or systems or creeds. Many settle for these lesser passions, but the reward goes to those who settle for nothing less than Jesus himself. And what is the reward? What awaits those who seek Jesus? Nothing short of the heart of Jesus.
God wants us to know we are saved, for saved people are dangerous people, willing to face off with the world, unafraid of the consequences since they know that, whatever happens, they will have eternal life.
Worry is to joy what a Hoover vacuum cleaner is to dirt: might as well attach your heart to a happiness-sucker and flip the switch.
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