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have. In His grace, God has placed some hidden gold somewhere in all of us that meets our need at a desperate moment.
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Life as defined by the author of life.”
have we done justice to our children when we have not allowed them to open up and share the deepest troubles of their hearts?
Who am I? I could now answer it. “I am yours, O Lord.”
“Without meaning, nothing else matters. With meaning, everything else falls into place.” If you can’t see the why, you cannot live for the what.
Only Jesus could legitimately explain the multifarious strands of human personality locked within me. He could explain my emotional life, my actions, and my reactions. He could explain why I longed for human touch, and why it was actually the touch of soul that I was ultimately after. Without Christ, I still would have the gnawing undercurrent that had run through everything in my life and that had led me to the tragic choice that very nearly brought me to an end.
“that we don’t know there are some doors we shouldn’t be entering. God not only opens doors; he shuts them too. Sometimes very painfully.”
“What we often miss,” Mr. Self added, “is that some of those shut doors reveal the most important clues as to where God wants us to go.”
“You’ll never walk alone when you walk with God.”
God has an appointment with each of us, and it is critical that every man and woman know this. He will stop our steps when it is not our time, and He will lead us when it is. This is a reassuring truth to know for every believer, and a necessary trust for anyone who ministers in areas of great risk.
