Our works/Our words

Let your light shine, God will find a dark place for it to light up.

Loss

Storms make a strong tree, sufferings make a strong saint

Faithfulness

Lamentations 3:22-33  22  The Lord’s lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, For His compassions never fail.  23 They are new every morning;  Great is Your faithfulness. 24  “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,  “Therefore I have hope in Him.” 25 The Lord is good to those who wait for Him,  To the person who seeks Him. 26 It is good that he waits silently For the salvation of the Lord.  27 It is good for a man that he should bear The yoke in his youth.  28 Let him sit alone and be silent Since He has laid it on him.  29    Let him put his mouth in the dust,  Perhaps there is hope. 30 Let him give his cheek to the smiter,  Let him be filled with reproach. 31 For the Lordwill not reject forever,  32 For if He causes grief,  Then He will have compassion According to His abundant lovingkindness.  33 For He does not afflict willingly Or grieve the sons of men.

Comfort

Psalm 139  1-18   1   O Lord, You have searched me and known me. 2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up;  You understand my thought from afar.  3 You scrutinize my path and my lying down, and are intimately acquainted with all my ways.  4 Even before there is a word on my tongue, Behold, O Lord, You know it all.  5 You have enclosed me behind and before, and laid Your hand upon me.  6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is too high, I cannot attain to it.  7 Where can I go from Your Spirit?  Or where can I flee from Your presence?  8 If I ascend to heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there.  9 If I take the wings of the dawn,  If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,  10 even there Your hand will lead me, and Your right hand will lay hold of me.  11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me,  and the light around me will be night,”  12 even the darkness is not dark to You, and the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are alike to You.  13 For You formed my inward parts;  You wove me in my mother’s womb.  14 I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;  wonderful are Your works,  and my soul knows it very well.  15 My frame was not hidden from You,  When I was made in secret,  and skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth;  16 Your eyes have seen my unformed substance;  and in Your book were all written the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there was not one of them. 17 How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!  How vast is the sum of them!  18   If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand.  When I awake, I am still with You.

Hope

Romans 10:11   Those who believe in Him will not be disappointed.