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When Life is Not Normal
When times get tough and we come through unscathed, the temptation is to say “God was watching”.
But does this imply that when we dont come through unscathed He wasnt watching?
He always is!
Even when the end result is what we consider negative.
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In times of crisis - Have you ever had a chance to share life with someone who was in a time of crisis?
Look past the chaos to the God of all creation.
He will show where the gospel fits in the storm.
Dr La Noue at Ground Zero.
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In times of crisis - Dr La Noue at Ground Zero.
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Hurricane Harvey - There assembled a response team, brothers and sisters eager to help.
They had their boats, trucks, chainsaws, trailers, cookies, muscles, time, and prayers ready for those hit hard by Harvey.
Our daughter turns two today, and we are delighted by her every day.
I wonder today about the world - and the country - she is growing up in.
We are doing our best early on to cultivate her curiosity and kindness, but are we doing enough to model what it means to not only pursue justice, but to humanize the pursuit of justice with grace, strength and dignity?
There is work to be done.
At this moment I despair that all she will know of this world - this country - is a toxic, angry, reactionary, and well-armed tribalism.
May we never settle for this as parents.
May we never settle for this as human beings.
May we practice all the more a boldness which actively confronts fear and violence with hope and love.
Will our children be safe?
Will we be safe?
Will our world be safe?
We desperately want to know.
And yet life with God is not, and never has been, about being safe.
“Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion."
"Ooh" said Susan.
"I'd thought he was a man.
Is he-quite safe?
I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion"..."Safe?" said Mr Beaver ..."Who said anything about safe?
'Course he isn't safe.
But he's good.
He's the King, I tell you.”
He doesn’t promise we won’t experience fiery seasons and difficult days.
But He does promise He’ll be with us.
He is at work in all things for His own glory, and our good—whether the hurricane is named Harvey or Hazel, marriage or parenting, health challenge or job insecurity, racial unrest or international tension.
To know He is near, in control, and good, is all we really need to know.
We’ll survive anything, as long as we know that He is with us and for us.
My message is: God makes sense of the chaos.
But I can only get through the chaos when I trust Him.
Everything on earth is temporary.
God operates in the eternal.
If I can only see the temporary, the chaos will never make sense.
God calls us in the chaos.
Just as God used a rainbow to speak after the flood, He still shows up in the middle of the chaos to speak to us.
In times of grief - you lived through grief for someone else’s benefit.
(write down the greatest grief you have lived through)
Dont Waste Your Life (cancer)
We waste our crisis/grief if we don’t hear in our own groanings the hope-filled labor pains of a fallen world.
We waste our cancer if we don’t hear in our own groanings the hope- lled labor pains of a fallen world.
We waste our cancer if we do not believe it is designed for us by God.
We waste our cancer if we do not believe it is designed for us by God.
In times of transition
We waste our crisis/grief if we do not believe it is designed for us by God.
We waste our crisis/grief if we believe it is a curse and not a gift.
We waste our cancer if we believe it is a curse and not a gift.
We waste our crisis/grief if we seek comfort from our odds rather than from God.
We waste our cancer if we seek comfort from our odds rather than from God.
https://document.desiringgod.org/don-t-waste-your-cancer-en.pdf?ts=1439242114
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He raises up leaders and brings down leaders ().
He accomplishes His plans for His people, regardless of who is in charge (, NLT).
He can work through all things, even our struggles, for the good of His people ().
His desire for us is to continue sharing our faith and praying for our leaders ().
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