I don’t know where we’re headed, I don’t know even what comes one minute from now. A constant uncertainty defines our days. We’ve gotten ourselves used to the constant changes of tide, the ebb and flow of daily struggle.
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Be at peace when the trouble comes. Be at peace when the rain falls. Be at peace when you start to hear the voices of doubt, and of fear – for then you will know that the most perfect peace is undisturbed by even the loudest and most terrifying attack. Be at peace and know that you belong to GOD.
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Starlight, star bright, first star I see tonight. Give up the moon and let the stars fall down. The night of reckoning will test your soul and ask you to produce a light from within – no help from without. Are you prepared with the oil your lamp requires to shine as bright as the moon?
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When you are tempted to betray your convictions, remember the shame suffered by Peter, who denied Jesus three times. Or by Judas, who became so filled with remorse that he took his life in despair.
The end of betraying Christ – which is the end of betraying your soul – is intense regret and somber remorse for living apart from the Truth.
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Can we be members of a culture that holds up values that aren’t our own? What do we do when the prevailing thought contradicts our deeper sensibilities and threatens to destroy the integrity of our convictions and beliefs? We must not acquiesce to demands that violate our conscience – for to do so would harm our souls and commit us to a prison of spirit and thought. The way is Freedom – and we must not settle for less.
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The perfect thing about your failure to see is that you are walking in faith – you are walking in the dark and as a result you are clinging to the Light.
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Try to be OK with not knowing the way. Try to be OK with a voice of uncertainty. Try to accept the possibility that all is beyond your grasp – but that it is unfolding, nevertheless, with a true and constant speed.
When you start to acknowledge the hopelessness of controlling what’s beyond your control, you will see how much energy you save by letting it all go free.