Posts Tagged ‘perseverence’
Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
A man walking through the forest saw a fox that had lost its legs, and he wondered how it lived. Then he saw a tiger come up with game in its mouth. The tiger ate its fill and left the rest of the meat for the fox.
The next day God fed the fox by means of the same tiger. The man began to wonder at God’s greatness and said to himself, “I too shall rest in a corner with full trust in the Lord and he will provide me with all that I need.” (more…)
Tags: accountable, envy, faith, humility, hunger, perseverence, providence, provision, purpose, responsibility, serve, stewardship, time-management, trust
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Thursday, January 4th, 2007
“All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find, beyond all hope, that you have attained it, or else, that it was within your reach and you have lost it forever.” - C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
Tags: adversity, eternity, heaven, pain, perseverence, trial
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Thursday, November 30th, 2006
“No one gets an exemption from hardship on planet earth. How we receive it hinges on whether we believe in an alternate reality that transcends the one we know so well. The Bible never minimizes hardship or unfairness – witness books like Job, Psalms, and Lamentations. It simply asks us to withhold final judgment until all the evidence is in.” – Phillip Yancey, Rumors of Another World (Zondervan, 2003)
Tags: adversity, attitude, bearing, bitterness, brokenness, commitment, contentment, depression, Eternal Truths You Can Depend On, faith, hardship, hope, persecution, perseverence, problems, promise, resolution, second-coming, stress, tragedy, trials, unfairness
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