Where does your security lie? Is God your refuge, your hiding place, your stronghold, your shepherd, your counselor, your friend, your redeemer, your saviour, your guide? If He is, you don’t need to search any further for security.
ELISABETH ELLIOTOf one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
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It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.
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The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the end it’s going to be a lot better and a lot bigger.
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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
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God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don’t have now, we don’t need now.
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Sometimes God’s refusals are His mercies.
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If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril in His hand but would be safer in mine!
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Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one’s thoughts.
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The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
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What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.
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I believe with all my heart God’s Story has a happy ending. . . But not yet, not necessarily yet. It takes faith to hold on to that in the face of the great burden of experience, which seems to prove otherwise.
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Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
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You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
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We can’t really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.
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Faith’s most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.
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It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.
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