faith for my deliverance is not faith in God. faith means, whether i am visibly delivered or not, i will stick to my belief that God is love.

-oswald chambers

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before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well.
-john greenleaf whittier

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the longer i live the more i believe that the overarching longing we feel in this life is that of grief– mourning something we no longer have, wishing that what we have was different, or missing something we never had at all.

the deepest grief, however, is concerning something more than our possessions or circumstances. our deepest grief is wrapped around our very being– mourning who we are, wishing we were different, or often wishing we could be someone else that we might not know at all.

what proof that our possessions, our circumstances, even our identity are not truly our own to achieve or decide! they are solely Christ’s to give, allow and conform. our deepest grief can only truly be abolished when our identity completely rests in the One who not only gave us the desire to know who we are, but above all, to know Him. only in Him can we find the truth about ourselves.

-anon