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Waiting

Here is a poem I read this morning from "Streams In The Desert": Wait, patiently wait' God never is late; Your budding plans are in Your Father's holding, And only wait His grand divine unfolding. The wait, wait, Patiently wait. Trust, hopefully trust, That God will adjust Your tangled life; and from it dark concealings, Will bring His will, in all it bright revealings. The trust, trust, Hopefully trust. Rest, peacefully rest On your Savior's breast; Breath in His ear your sacred high ambition, And He will bring it forth in blest fruition. Then rest, rest, Peacefully rest! Mercy A. Gladwin So here I am this morning asking God to help me patiently wait, hopefully trust, and peacefully rest!
"You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts." 2 Corinthians 3:3 I have a good friend who is living in Spain and I absolutely love when I receive a letter from her. There is something about an old fashion letter that expresses great love and connection. In the verse above we are told that we are the letter from Christ. What is your letter saying? Does your letter tell of a loving Christ who has great compassion and patience for the human race? Or does your letter tell the world that you don’t have much time for people that are different from you? I am on this journey to experiencing God and understanding more about God and Christ and my own self. On this journey the letters people are writing with their lives have taught me a lot about what it means to be a Christ follower. Now some of these letters have been true and some have been qu