Philippians 2:12b-13 Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure. (KJV) od is too good for us to experience His love and then be contented to abuse that love. Accepting the rejected is not the weakness of the Gospel; it is its strength! It is to the distraught heart that seeks so desperately for a place of refuge that we extend soft hands and tender words. How can we then define the Church, with its rising divorce rate and afflicted leadership? The Church needs to bathe itself in its own message. We have strengths and struggles. We have boxed ourselves in and lifted ourselves up as the epitome of sanctity. But beneath our stained glass windows and padded pews lie broken hearts and torn families. We have no right to be blessed, in ourselves. Yet He has blessed us “in spite of us.” Beneath the streaming tears of a grateful heart, through our trembling lips must emerge the birthing thoughts that Christ has done it all, and that we have nothing to boast in but His precious blood alone! Verse/Commentary courtesy of Hope For Every Moment app. hfem.destinyimage
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 08:22:09 +0000
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