I hope you guys find this encouraging. Something I wrote a few months ago...
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STRONGER THAN MY THREAD
Does He love me because I’m faithful? Does He love me because I'm able? Does He love me because I deserve it? Oh, wretched man that I am! When the strength of our love has failed and we forget, turn away, fall down, and our hearts become void of all emotion, what is there? When our feelings have vacated into darkness and the skies turn gray, what is there? Shipwrecked and stranded on a barren island of sorrow, what is there? Are my feelings more powerful than the promises of His word?
Feelings are like a ship tossed on the high seas, back and forth they reveal their instability. Shall we act upon something so unstable? When the tempest ignites and the darkness closes in may we never put our trust in how we feel, but instead let us reckon something more SOLID!
Solid, pure, and forever is the ROCK of our salvation! Such a love the world has never known! A love that melts my foolish pride into rubble! Is this a love according to my circumstances? Is this a love according to my condition? Absolutely not! For that would make it a love according to MEASURE, and what our God has done for us is IMMEASURABLE!!
I’m only hanging on by His Gospel, sometimes only by a thread, and so often through a dark glass; but even just a glimpse of the light of His love I scarce can take it in! OH, but the power of His light!! How could so much LOVE be LAVISHED on those who could never earn it?? I DON'T KNOW, but when I turn my heart to that lonely hill I see a fountain of MERCY and GRACE! A LOVE that HOLDS ME far greater than my feeble thread!! So I continue to find my rest next to that old tree where my Savior bled and died!! OH what a BLESSED ASSURANCE in the ARMS OF MY SAVIOR!!
Isaiah 40:11
He tends his flock like a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart;
John 10:28
I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand.
Grace and Peace...