A Sure Anchor
Grab on to the anchor. It is trustworthy. It keeps you snugged up to the "trustworthy anchor for our souls."
Grab on to the anchor. It is trustworthy. It keeps you snugged up to the "trustworthy anchor for our souls."
I don't know where you are or what your circumstances might be, but I can tell you that sometimes we don't need to do anything but wait.
The crowds treated him like a criminal even though he'd done nothing wrong. Yet it wasn't the crowds who put him on a criminal's cross and that he died. It was for my sin. For all humanity's sin.
There will be toasts to the bride and groom. Gifts given. And a hearty farewell as the bride and groom escape to their honeymoon and begin their life together.
We all have things in our past that we regret. Usually, we know when we've done wrong.
It was a stinging experience, but I remembered that earlier prayer and the answer God gave me.
What I realized were the memories of that life in the house were the most important. And they're still there, fresh in my mind. The voices. The smells.
I expected instant physical healing. Instead, I saw a change of a completely different kind.
He doesn't yell at us. He doesn't withhold mercy. He simply asks us to recognize our wrongs and confess them. And then he forgives.
I heard the words when I was deep in grief to "lean into the grief", to let the sorrow envelope you like the waves of the ocean. Work with it, and you will move through it. You will be stronger for it.