Michael English’s In Christ Alone can likely encourage us all on the days we feel like we’re not enough. Of course, it can make us feel a lot of things. For this thread, I’m using this line.
“I have been blessed beyond measure, and by His strength alone I overcome!”
I can tell you a sob story...
The bad times make us appreciate the good, but we also don’t know what benefits will come from the bad.
My b-i-l had to miss a meeting on 9/11/01. Want to guess where? He was supposed to meet another b-i-l there, but he put off his meeting too.
Psalm 25
Especially 25:16-17
16 Turn to me and be gracious to me,
for I am lonely and afflicted.
17 Relieve the troubles of my heart
and free me from my anguish.
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
I was feeling discouraged by the reality of what I needed to clean up (broken feeders, a five gallon waterer, broken screens and building supplies...). I just couldn’t figure out how to get it bagged up. God told me to start moving, and He...