Only God is capable of telling us what our rights and needs are. You have to surrender that right to Him.
Joni Eareckson Tada
Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.
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He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace.
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Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.
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Jesus went without comfort so that you might have it. He postponed joy so that you might share in it. He willingly chose isolation so that you might never be alone in your hurt and sorrow. He had no real fellowship so that fellowship might be yours, this moment. This alone is enough cause for great gratitude!
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.. We will stand amazed to see the topside of the tapestry and how God beautifully embroidered each circumstance into a pattern for our good and His glory.
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The Psalms wrap nouns and verbs around our pain better than any other book.
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There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry.
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Joni discovered the best way to put the halter on her horse without being animal resisting and fleeing was to turn her back until he nuzzled up to her. At that point, she could slip the halter on. Just so, she surmises, sometimes God waits for us to turn our backs on what we desire most and to trust Him.
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Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don't need God as much.
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The more righteous God appeared, the more resentful I became.
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Referencing 2 Corinthians 4: 6, Robert Hewitt compares jars of clay in the first century to the same value we would put on a cardboard box. Joni Eareckson Tada queries whether we would question God's right to leave some holes in the box in order to give glimpses of the treasure inside
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