“But I have stilled and quieted my soul.” Ps.131.2 NIV
Here is a skill worth learning. We learn it when we train ourselves to be satisfied with all that God is for us in our present circumstances. It is to say, and often to sing, even in the face of the most difficult circumstances, “God is enough!” We may wonder that if God is enough, then why do we need to convince ourselves that He is. I know that in my own experience my feelings tend to follow my focus. Contentment is often just a matter of waking to what you have in Christ. But another side of contentment is learning to make peace with your present circumstances by giving thanks in them even when you don’t fully appreciate why God is allowing them. 7/29/2009 Conversations Within ts
Just me trying to be honest with God.
"Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have." - Unknown
“But I have stilled and quieted my soul.” Ps.131.2 NIV
Here is a skill worth learning. We learn it when we train ourselves to be satisfied with all that God is for us in our present circumstances. It is to say, and often to sing, even in the face of the most difficult circumstances, “God is enough!” We may wonder that if God is enough, then why do we need to convince ourselves that He is. I know that in my own experience my feelings tend to follow my focus. Contentment is often just a matter of waking to what you have in Christ. But another side of contentment is learning to make peace with your present circumstances by giving thanks in them even when you don’t fully appreciate why God is allowing them. 7/29/2009 Conversations Within ts
Here is a skill worth learning. We learn it when we train ourselves to be satisfied with all that God is for us in our present circumstances. It is to say, and often to sing, even in the face of the most difficult circumstances, “God is enough!” We may wonder that if God is enough, then why do we need to convince ourselves that He is. I know that in my own experience my feelings tend to follow my focus. Contentment is often just a matter of waking to what you have in Christ. But another side of contentment is learning to make peace with your present circumstances by giving thanks in them even when you don’t fully appreciate why God is allowing them. 7/29/2009 Conversations Within ts
“Five miles out is five miles back.” Allen Roach
“Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD.” Ps.130.1
How easy it is to get in over your head in this place. We may be drowning in debt, overdrawn in our relationships, or have written checks our body cannot cash. No matter how deep we have fallen, we are never beyond the power of Christ to rescue us. This does not mean that the rescue will be easy. A friend of mine once said, “Five miles out is five miles back.” However deep we have fallen is the distance we will have to ascend to get out of the pit. But Jesus climbs with us, offering a hand up or pointing out the next handhold or foothold. Certainly, the way out of every pit is in our next decision or next choice. Am I following Him up or going my way down? 7/28/2009 Conversations Within ts
How easy it is to get in over your head in this place. We may be drowning in debt, overdrawn in our relationships, or have written checks our body cannot cash. No matter how deep we have fallen, we are never beyond the power of Christ to rescue us. This does not mean that the rescue will be easy. A friend of mine once said, “Five miles out is five miles back.” However deep we have fallen is the distance we will have to ascend to get out of the pit. But Jesus climbs with us, offering a hand up or pointing out the next handhold or foothold. Certainly, the way out of every pit is in our next decision or next choice. Am I following Him up or going my way down? 7/28/2009 Conversations Within ts
“Five miles out is five miles back.” Allen Roach
“Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD.” Ps.130.1
How easy it is to get in over your head in this place. We may be drowning in debt, overdrawn in our relationships, or have written checks our body cannot cash. No matter how deep we have fallen, we are never beyond the power of Christ to rescue us. This does not mean that the rescue will be easy. A friend of mine once said, “Five miles out is five miles back.” However deep we have fallen is the distance we will have to ascend to get out of the pit. But Jesus climbs with us, offering a hand up or pointing out the next handhold or foothold. Certainly, the way out of every pit is in our next decision or next choice. Am I following Him up or going my way down? 7/28/2009 Conversations Within ts
How easy it is to get in over your head in this place. We may be drowning in debt, overdrawn in our relationships, or have written checks our body cannot cash. No matter how deep we have fallen, we are never beyond the power of Christ to rescue us. This does not mean that the rescue will be easy. A friend of mine once said, “Five miles out is five miles back.” However deep we have fallen is the distance we will have to ascend to get out of the pit. But Jesus climbs with us, offering a hand up or pointing out the next handhold or foothold. Certainly, the way out of every pit is in our next decision or next choice. Am I following Him up or going my way down? 7/28/2009 Conversations Within ts
“If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.” Obi-Wan Kenobi
“They have greatly oppressed me…but they have not gained the victory over me.” Ps.129.2 NIV
There is great confidence when one is hard pressed but knows that they cannot be not crushed; or to be perplexed, but certain that they will be inwardly kept from despair. We are said to be persecuted but Christ will never abandon us and my personal favorite of Paul’s catalog of outward oppressions that sometime come to Christians, is that we may even be struck down, but we cannot be not destroyed.” Bring it on! Our victory is certain. 7/27/2009 Conversations Within ts
There is great confidence when one is hard pressed but knows that they cannot be not crushed; or to be perplexed, but certain that they will be inwardly kept from despair. We are said to be persecuted but Christ will never abandon us and my personal favorite of Paul’s catalog of outward oppressions that sometime come to Christians, is that we may even be struck down, but we cannot be not destroyed.” Bring it on! Our victory is certain. 7/27/2009 Conversations Within ts
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