Everlasting to Everlasting
An awesome expanse by unrighteous unrippled
Senseless in sense that senses can’t pry
The secrets
Souls defenseless, crippled
Crumple, defeated and fate decry.
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Suffering
The Last Laugh (Hope for You)
He gives hope to the hopeless
Life to the lifeless
Sight to the blind
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Hope
Slippery hope
Snaking horizon
Passionately pursued
Difficult to hold.
If caught…what joy!
New vision! New life!
Vitality bursts
Quenches all thirsts.
But still, in feast,
A niggling doubt,
Will wriggling hope
Abruptly leave?
Hearts afire
Often doused
When death and loss
Their loved ones cleave.
Hope cocooned
Kept for this time
Released by incisions
Fate’s cuts unkind.
It splits the horizon
That dams Life from death
Floods desert eyes
With visions of bliss.
No longer slippery
Or threatened by loss
This Hope is alive
Though death exhaust.
Delight Yourself, No Matter What the Circumstances
Delight yourself in the Lord;
and He will give you the desires of your heart.
Commit your way to the Lord,
Trust also in Him,
and He will do it. Psalm 37:4-5
This verse is embedded in a chapter which differs from the over all scope we find in the Book of Psalms, for it mentions nothing of prayer or praise. But it is all instruction; it’s ” Mesihil – a teaching Psalm.”
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Amazing Thorn: How Sweet the Sound
A number of years ago, I was enlightened to the motivating factor, which transformed a tenant of a run down apartment into a successful businessman, with a vast empire of land holdings. He informed me that his first landlord made his life so miserable, that he vowed to himself to never rent another piece of property. Thus, began his prosperous career in the real estate business.
Where the average person would cower at this overbearing thorn in the flesh, this man possessed the fortitude to use the negative arrogance energy of his first and last landlord to propel him to top of the heap.
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Where is God When Things are Going Wrong?
“For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened,
and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” Genesis 3:5
Many of us understand that the serpent came to Eve in the Garden and tempted her to question God’s Word: “Has God indeed said…?” (Genesis 3:1). However, that was only half of his line of attack. In addition to casting doubt on God’s Word, the serpent called into question God’s character. In essence, he said, “If you do what God forbids you to do — eating the forbidden fruit — you’ll become equal to God. Why do you think He has forbidden you to do it? Because He doesn’t want what’s best for you. He wants to keep the best for Himself.”
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Trials Shouldn’t Surprise or Frighten Us
Hebrews 6:7-8 NKJV
For the earth which drinks in the rain that often comes upon it, and bears herbs useful for those by whom it is cultivated, receives blessing from God; but if it bears thorns and briars, it is rejected and near to being cursed, whose end is to be burned.
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Why Does God Allow Suffering?
Do you question why a good God would allow suffering?
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God’s Plan and Adversity — How do we reconcile the will of a loving God with tragedy in the world?
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This workshop is presented by noted author Rich Dixon. He has written countless articles and has authored Relentless Grace: God’s Invitation To Give Hope Another Chance
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