Do Not Throw Away Your Confidence

[Christsfreeservant]

We read in the earlier part of Hebrews 10 about what Jesus Christ did for us in giving his life up for us on that cross for our salvation from sin. And then we are encouraged to draw near to our Lord with a TRUE heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water (See Heb 10:19-22).

A true heart is an honest heart, a sincere heart. It is not a lying or a deceiving heart. Full assurance of faith is fullness of faith, not partially faith and partially not. No half-hearted faith which fluctuates back and forth. And faith is divine persuasion as to God’s holiness and righteousness, of our sinfulness, and of our need to forsake our sins to follow Jesus in his ways.

When we come to Jesus with such unadulterated faith as this, in truth, holding nothing back from God, ready to surrender our hearts to him and to follow him wherever he leads us, and we repent of our sins, he cleanses us from our sins. We are crucified with Christ in death to sin and we are raised with Christ to new lives in him to be lived to his righteousness.

We die with Christ to our old lives of living for sin and for self, and we are delivered from both the control of sin and our slavery to sin so that we can now no longer live under the control of sin but under Holy Spirit control and in slavery to God and to his righteousness. For Jesus died that we might die with him to sin and live to him and to his righteousness.

Once we believe in Jesus, and we are crucified with him in death to sin, and we are given new lives in him of God to be lived to God and to his righteousness, then we are to hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful (Heb 10:23). For faith is not a one-time deal. Faith must be continuous, and it must be in what we practice.

Sinning Deliberately and Habitually
Hebrews 10:26-27 ESV

“For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.”​

Many people today have bought into a big lie which says we can believe in Jesus Christ, have heaven secured us, but that we can continue living in deliberate sin against God as a matter of practice since Jesus died to forgive us our sins and to deliver us from hell and to promise us heaven.

But that is not what the Scriptures teach us. And that is not the belief of someone with a true heart who has fullness of faith in Jesus Christ. For fullness of faith dies with Christ to sin and lives to his righteousness, and it continues in him in dying with him to sin and in walking in obedience to his ways. It doesn’t look for ways out of obeying the Lord.

What the Scriptures teach is if we go on sinning deliberately, as a matter of practice, after receiving (accepting, embracing) the knowledge of the truth, that heaven is not promised to us. There is no forgiveness of sins. We will die in our sins. We will face the wrath of God. And we will not have eternal life with God but a fearful expectation of judgment.

And the writer of Hebrews is not the only one to say this. Paul said it plenty. He said we must walk no longer according to the flesh but according to the Spirit, and if we walk according to the flesh, we will die. We will not live with Christ for eternity. And he said if we make sin our practice or if we sow to please the flesh and not the Spirit, that we will not inherit the kingdom of God. Deliberately making sin our practice ends in death, not in life with God.

[Lu 9:23-26; Jn 6:35-58; Jn 15:1-11; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-17; Eph 4:17-24; 1 Jn 1:5-9; 1 Jn 2:3-6; 1 Pet 2:24; 1 Co 6:9-10, 19-20; 2 Co 5:10, 15; Gal 5:16-21; Eph 5:3-6; Gal 6:7-8; Rom 2:6-8; Tit 2:11-14; 1 Jn 3:4-10]

Recall the former Days
Hebrews 10:32-39 ESV

“But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings, sometimes being publicly exposed to reproach and affliction, and sometimes being partners with those so treated. For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one. Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised. For,

“’Yet a little while,
and the coming one will come and will not delay;
but my righteous one shall live by faith,
and if he shrinks back,
my soul has no pleasure in him.’

“But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.”​

And this is speaking to those who walked with Jesus for a time after they believed in him. They suffered for the sake of his name, and they suffered along with other believers, and they empathized with those who were treated in like manner as they had been treated. They had compassion on those who were imprisoned unjustly, and they did not fight back when others took from them what was not rightfully theirs to take.

But now there was concern that their faith may be weakening, perhaps due to persecution and trials and tribulations that never seem to end. Or perhaps due to the pleasures of this world drawing them away from their pure devotion to Jesus Christ. So, these words are to encourage them to keep on keeping on and to not lose heart and to not waver and to not give up.

Sometimes life gets really hard. Sometimes we wait for that rainbow at the end of the tunnel, but the tunnel seems to keep going on and on and on. We wonder how much longer things must continue the way that they are or if we will ever see the light of day on this side of heaven. So this is to encourage us to hang in there and to not throw away our confidence.

Whether our faith is under trial through difficult and trying circumstances or it is being challenged through the pressures of the world, we must never give up hope. We must keep pressing on in our faith. Our trials are to develop within us endurance and character and hope. So, they are for our good, to mature us in Christ and so we share in his holiness.

So, don’t give in to sin. Don’t decide the Christian life is just too hard. And don’t give way to pressure to give up just because things got much harder. Don’t throw away your confidence. You will receive what was promised from God if you don’t give up. You just have to wait for it patiently. For if you shrink back, God’s soul has no pleasure in you. So, please take this to heart.

Praise You in This Storm

Mark Hall and Bernie Herms

I was sure by now, God You would have reached down
and wiped our tears away,
stepped in and saved the day.
But once again, I say amen
and it's still raining
as the thunder rolls
I barely hear You whisper through the rain,
"I'm with you"
and as Your mercy falls
I raise my hands and praise
the God who gives and takes away.

And I'll praise you in this storm
and I will lift my hands
for You are who You are
no matter where I am
and every tear I've cried
You hold in your hand
You never left my side
and though my heart is torn
I will praise You in this storm…

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[Jeshu]

i really like the first part of your post. Having a clean heart and sincere love for God is very important and awesome to process. However not everyone attains such Heavenly treasures overnight, some people really struggle with repetitive sins in their lives and they don't know how to break free from that horrible trap.

i think there are many weak believers who struggle with wrongful passions because they are enslaved to such and cannot just break with such wrongs through mere willpower.

For years i struggled against a sin that i could not let go. It was awful but no matter how i had tried to not be like that it didn't work. Then i realised that what needed to happen was that i had to go to Jesus when i was in that wrong self and ask Him to give me a willing heart instead of a sin loving heart.

In the mean time i learned to eat His loving grace instead of heeding that horrible accuser. Every day again i ate grace. Thanking Jesus for His loving truth growing in me in that sinful part of myself that i shared with Him. For that is what i noticed straight away. The moment i began confessing to Jesus who and what i was like in that self, God's loving truth began to grow in that part of my life. It was awesome to see that happening.

So even though it took many years for me to learn to love Jesus enough to break with wrong in that part of my life completely, Jesus set me free from it in the end, eating His loving grace. Otherwise i stopped all attempts at stopping my sin in my own ability. All i did was go to Him and accept His forgiving grace into my life where sin ruled me.

So please brothers and sisters if you struggle with wilful sin please go to Jesus when you are in the mood doing that sin and begin sharing yourself with Jesus. Hand Jesus your bad life, and take His good life back in return.

You may have to do this for some time! Yet the more grace you eat the more you will begin to love Jesus because you will see how evil and selfish you are in your love for wrong and begin to realise why Jesus wants to save you from being like that.

Please be strong brothers and sisters. For holding on to His grace is essential when the accuser is going to town you eating God's grace, that dragon doesn't like you doing that! Yet simply thank Jesus, and keep thanking and loving Him for dying for your sin. For if you do then you will see yourself change from someone who does it wrong to someone who loves God for Jesus, learning how to do it right.

This is how Jesus set me completely free from doing wilful sin. Learning to love God more than having life in wrong. i'm so unbelievable thankful Jesus saved me from my sins, for they were red like scarlet, yet Jesus truly washed me whiter than snow.

It is great having a heart that has been set free from sin by the blood of Christ. Yet i may humbly praise Jesus all the days of eternity for loving me to death in some very stubborn sin.

All praise to Jesus.

Song of Battle.

The arrows streak their flame.
I'm under attack again!
Opening the treasures of my defence,
His loving Word my only chance,
Of surviving the fiery weather.

"Do, don't, eat, abstain, go or stay."
Is what my inner attackers say.
Scornfully throwing their hate around.
My sins sizzling at their sound.
Surrounding me with my own misery.

Now one grabs me by the throat.
My life his scornful gloat.
"How can you trust in God's grace,
When I rub this dirt in your face?"
He demands in accuser's tone.

In humble voice I bow my head.
Lord can You hear what they said?
Yet who can charge Your elect?
Jesus sacrifice makes us perfect.
Please give me faith to stand.

His sword streaks its flame.
Attacking my enemies once again.
His loving Word fells them all.
In the fire of His love they fall,
A wonderful happy ending.

For Jesus is victorious over my sin.
Eternal life He for me did win.
Praises to Him from my heart swells.
As His Spirit of Truth in me dwells.
All glory to Him!

 

[biblelesson]

We read in the earlier part of Hebrews 10 about what Jesus Christ did for us in giving his life up for us on that cross for our salvation from sin. And then we are encouraged to draw near to our Lord with a TRUE heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water (See Heb 10:19-22).

A true heart is an honest heart, a sincere heart. It is not a lying or a deceiving heart. Full assurance of faith is fullness of faith, not partially faith and partially not. No half-hearted faith which fluctuates back and forth. And faith is divine persuasion as to God’s holiness and righteousness, of our sinfulness, and of our need to forsake our sins to follow Jesus in his ways.

When we come to Jesus with such unadulterated faith as this, in truth, holding nothing back from God, ready to surrender our hearts to him and to follow him wherever he leads us, and we repent of our sins, he cleanses us from our sins. We are crucified with Christ in death to sin and we are raised with Christ to new lives in him to be lived to his righteousness.

We die with Christ to our old lives of living for sin and for self, and we are delivered from both the control of sin and our slavery to sin so that we can now no longer live under the control of sin but under Holy Spirit control and in slavery to God and to his righteousness. For Jesus died that we might die with him to sin and live to him and to his righteousness.

Once we believe in Jesus, and we are crucified with him in death to sin, and we are given new lives in him of God to be lived to God and to his righteousness, then we are to hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful (Heb 10:23). For faith is not a one-time deal. Faith must be continuous, and it must be in what we practice.

Sinning Deliberately and Habitually
Hebrews 10:26-27 ESV

“For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.”​

Many people today have bought into a big lie which says we can believe in Jesus Christ, have heaven secured us, but that we can continue living in deliberate sin against God as a matter of practice since Jesus died to forgive us our sins and to deliver us from hell and to promise us heaven.

But that is not what the Scriptures teach us. And that is not the belief of someone with a true heart who has fullness of faith in Jesus Christ. For fullness of faith dies with Christ to sin and lives to his righteousness, and it continues in him in dying with him to sin and in walking in obedience to his ways. It doesn’t look for ways out of obeying the Lord.

What the Scriptures teach is if we go on sinning deliberately, as a matter of practice, after receiving (accepting, embracing) the knowledge of the truth, that heaven is not promised to us. There is no forgiveness of sins. We will die in our sins. We will face the wrath of God. And we will not have eternal life with God but a fearful expectation of judgment.

And the writer of Hebrews is not the only one to say this. Paul said it plenty. He said we must walk no longer according to the flesh but according to the Spirit, and if we walk according to the flesh, we will die. We will not live with Christ for eternity. And he said if we make sin our practice or if we sow to please the flesh and not the Spirit, that we will not inherit the kingdom of God. Deliberately making sin our practice ends in death, not in life with God.

[Lu 9:23-26; Jn 6:35-58; Jn 15:1-11; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-17; Eph 4:17-24; 1 Jn 1:5-9; 1 Jn 2:3-6; 1 Pet 2:24; 1 Co 6:9-10, 19-20; 2 Co 5:10, 15; Gal 5:16-21; Eph 5:3-6; Gal 6:7-8; Rom 2:6-8; Tit 2:11-14; 1 Jn 3:4-10]

Recall the former Days
Hebrews 10:32-39 ESV

“But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings, sometimes being publicly exposed to reproach and affliction, and sometimes being partners with those so treated. For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one. Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised. For,

“’Yet a little while,
and the coming one will come and will not delay;
but my righteous one shall live by faith,
and if he shrinks back,
my soul has no pleasure in him.’

“But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.”​

And this is speaking to those who walked with Jesus for a time after they believed in him. They suffered for the sake of his name, and they suffered along with other believers, and they empathized with those who were treated in like manner as they had been treated. They had compassion on those who were imprisoned unjustly, and they did not fight back when others took from them what was not rightfully theirs to take.

But now there was concern that their faith may be weakening, perhaps due to persecution and trials and tribulations that never seem to end. Or perhaps due to the pleasures of this world drawing them away from their pure devotion to Jesus Christ. So, these words are to encourage them to keep on keeping on and to not lose heart and to not waver and to not give up.

Sometimes life gets really hard. Sometimes we wait for that rainbow at the end of the tunnel, but the tunnel seems to keep going on and on and on. We wonder how much longer things must continue the way that they are or if we will ever see the light of day on this side of heaven. So this is to encourage us to hang in there and to not throw away our confidence.

Whether our faith is under trial through difficult and trying circumstances or it is being challenged through the pressures of the world, we must never give up hope. We must keep pressing on in our faith. Our trials are to develop within us endurance and character and hope. So, they are for our good, to mature us in Christ and so we share in his holiness.

So, don’t give in to sin. Don’t decide the Christian life is just too hard. And don’t give way to pressure to give up just because things got much harder. Don’t throw away your confidence. You will receive what was promised from God if you don’t give up. You just have to wait for it patiently. For if you shrink back, God’s soul has no pleasure in you. So, please take this to heart.

Praise You in This Storm

Mark Hall and Bernie Herms

I was sure by now, God You would have reached down
and wiped our tears away,
stepped in and saved the day.
But once again, I say amen
and it's still raining
as the thunder rolls
I barely hear You whisper through the rain,
"I'm with you"
and as Your mercy falls
I raise my hands and praise
the God who gives and takes away.

And I'll praise you in this storm
and I will lift my hands
for You are who You are
no matter where I am
and every tear I've cried
You hold in your hand
You never left my side
and though my heart is torn
I will praise You in this storm…

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Thank you for your post! The lyrics to Praise You in This Storm is so touching. Just absolutely beautiful.

 

[biblelesson]

i really like the first part of your post. Having a clean heart and sincere love for God is very important and awesome to process. However not everyone attains such Heavenly treasures overnight, some people really struggle with repetitive sins in their lives and they don't know how to break free from that horrible trap.

i think there are many weak believers who struggle with wrongful passions because they are enslaved to such and cannot just break with such wrongs through mere willpower.

For years i struggled against a sin that i could not let go. It was awful but no matter how i had tried to not be like that it didn't work. Then i realised that what needed to happen was that i had to go to Jesus when i was in that wrong self and ask Him to give me a willing heart instead of a sin loving heart.

In the mean time i learned to eat His loving grace instead of heeding that horrible accuser. Every day again i ate grace. Thanking Jesus for His loving truth growing in me in that sinful part of myself that i shared with Him. For that is what i noticed straight away. The moment i began confessing to Jesus who and what i was like in that self, God's loving truth began to grow in that part of my life. It was awesome to see that happening.

So even though it took many years for me to learn to love Jesus enough to break with wrong in that part of my life completely, Jesus set me free from it in the end, eating His loving grace. Otherwise i stopped all attempts at stopping my sin in my own ability. All i did was go to Him and accept His forgiving grace into my life where sin ruled me.

So please brothers and sisters if you struggle with wilful sin please go to Jesus when you are in the mood doing that sin and begin sharing yourself with Jesus. Hand Jesus your bad life, and take His good life back in return.

You may have to do this for some time! Yet the more grace you eat the more you will begin to love Jesus because you will see how evil and selfish you are in your love for wrong and begin to realise why Jesus wants to save you from being like that.

Please be strong brothers and sisters. For holding on to His grace is essential when the accuser is going to town you eating God's grace, that dragon doesn't like you doing that! Yet simply thank Jesus, and keep thanking and loving Him for dying for your sin. For if you do then you will see yourself change from someone who does it wrong to someone who loves God for Jesus, learning how to do it right.

This is how Jesus set me completely free from doing wilful sin. Learning to love God more than having life in wrong. i'm so unbelievable thankful Jesus saved me from my sins, for they were red like scarlet, yet Jesus truly washed me whiter than snow.

It is great having a heart that has been set free from sin by the blood of Christ. Yet i may humbly praise Jesus all the days of eternity for loving me to death in some very stubborn sin.

All praise to Jesus.

Song of Battle.

The arrows streak their flame.
I'm under attack again!
Opening the treasures of my defence,
His loving Word my only chance,
Of surviving the fiery weather.

"Do, don't, eat, abstain, go or stay."
Is what my inner attackers say.
Scornfully throwing their hate around.
My sins sizzling at their sound.
Surrounding me with my own misery.

Now one grabs me by the throat.
My life his scornful gloat.
"How can you trust in God's grace,
When I rub this dirt in your face?"
He demands in accuser's tone.

In humble voice I bow my head.
Lord can You hear what they said?
Yet who can charge Your elect?
Jesus sacrifice makes us perfect.
Please give me faith to stand.

His sword streaks its flame.
Attacking my enemies once again.
His loving Word fells them all.
In the fire of His love they fall,
A wonderful happy ending.

For Jesus is victorious over my sin.
Eternal life He for me did win.
Praises to Him from my heart swells.
As His Spirit of Truth in me dwells.
All glory to Him!

I'm struggling with a sin that's difficult. Thank you for explaining how Jesus removed your long time sin from you.

Sometimes that's all we need is for one Christian to show another Christian how to approach a situation that worked for them.

 

[Jeshu]

Sometimes that's all we need is for one Christian to show another Christian how to approach a situation that worked for them.

God bless you! Make sure you bare your soul - time and again - and you will see that Jesus divides the sheep from the goats.

In my struggle with sin He collected me in my remorseful repenting self - time and again - until wilful sin died in me completely - and Jesus destroyed the wicked controlling my life there - giving me my life back completely fixed in that part of myself.

So thankful that Jesus set me free! i know He loves to that for you as well.

Honestly true loving Jesus desires no wrong at all.

Be of good courage.

 

[Christsfreeservant]

Thank you for your post! The lyrics to Praise You in This Storm is so touching. Just absolutely beautiful.

You are so welcome. All glory to God! Yes, that is a beautiful song, I agree.

 

[Connie T. Causey]

We read in the earlier part of Hebrews 10 about what Jesus Christ did for us in giving his life up for us on that cross for our salvation from sin. And then we are encouraged to draw near to our Lord with a TRUE heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water (See Heb 10:19-22).

A true heart is an honest heart, a sincere heart. It is not a lying or a deceiving heart. Full assurance of faith is fullness of faith, not partially faith and partially not. No half-hearted faith which fluctuates back and forth. And faith is divine persuasion as to God’s holiness and righteousness, of our sinfulness, and of our need to forsake our sins to follow Jesus in his ways.

When we come to Jesus with such unadulterated faith as this, in truth, holding nothing back from God, ready to surrender our hearts to him and to follow him wherever he leads us, and we repent of our sins, he cleanses us from our sins. We are crucified with Christ in death to sin and we are raised with Christ to new lives in him to be lived to his righteousness.

We die with Christ to our old lives of living for sin and for self, and we are delivered from both the control of sin and our slavery to sin so that we can now no longer live under the control of sin but under Holy Spirit control and in slavery to God and to his righteousness. For Jesus died that we might die with him to sin and live to him and to his righteousness.

Once we believe in Jesus, and we are crucified with him in death to sin, and we are given new lives in him of God to be lived to God and to his righteousness, then we are to hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful (Heb 10:23). For faith is not a one-time deal. Faith must be continuous, and it must be in what we practice.

Sinning Deliberately and Habitually
Hebrews 10:26-27 ESV

“For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.”​

Many people today have bought into a big lie which says we can believe in Jesus Christ, have heaven secured us, but that we can continue living in deliberate sin against God as a matter of practice since Jesus died to forgive us our sins and to deliver us from hell and to promise us heaven.

But that is not what the Scriptures teach us. And that is not the belief of someone with a true heart who has fullness of faith in Jesus Christ. For fullness of faith dies with Christ to sin and lives to his righteousness, and it continues in him in dying with him to sin and in walking in obedience to his ways. It doesn’t look for ways out of obeying the Lord.

What the Scriptures teach is if we go on sinning deliberately, as a matter of practice, after receiving (accepting, embracing) the knowledge of the truth, that heaven is not promised to us. There is no forgiveness of sins. We will die in our sins. We will face the wrath of God. And we will not have eternal life with God but a fearful expectation of judgment.

And the writer of Hebrews is not the only one to say this. Paul said it plenty. He said we must walk no longer according to the flesh but according to the Spirit, and if we walk according to the flesh, we will die. We will not live with Christ for eternity. And he said if we make sin our practice or if we sow to please the flesh and not the Spirit, that we will not inherit the kingdom of God. Deliberately making sin our practice ends in death, not in life with God.

[Lu 9:23-26; Jn 6:35-58; Jn 15:1-11; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-17; Eph 4:17-24; 1 Jn 1:5-9; 1 Jn 2:3-6; 1 Pet 2:24; 1 Co 6:9-10, 19-20; 2 Co 5:10, 15; Gal 5:16-21; Eph 5:3-6; Gal 6:7-8; Rom 2:6-8; Tit 2:11-14; 1 Jn 3:4-10]

Recall the former Days
Hebrews 10:32-39 ESV

“But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings, sometimes being publicly exposed to reproach and affliction, and sometimes being partners with those so treated. For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one. Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised. For,

“’Yet a little while,
and the coming one will come and will not delay;
but my righteous one shall live by faith,
and if he shrinks back,
my soul has no pleasure in him.’

“But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.”​

And this is speaking to those who walked with Jesus for a time after they believed in him. They suffered for the sake of his name, and they suffered along with other believers, and they empathized with those who were treated in like manner as they had been treated. They had compassion on those who were imprisoned unjustly, and they did not fight back when others took from them what was not rightfully theirs to take.

But now there was concern that their faith may be weakening, perhaps due to persecution and trials and tribulations that never seem to end. Or perhaps due to the pleasures of this world drawing them away from their pure devotion to Jesus Christ. So, these words are to encourage them to keep on keeping on and to not lose heart and to not waver and to not give up.

Sometimes life gets really hard. Sometimes we wait for that rainbow at the end of the tunnel, but the tunnel seems to keep going on and on and on. We wonder how much longer things must continue the way that they are or if we will ever see the light of day on this side of heaven. So this is to encourage us to hang in there and to not throw away our confidence.

Whether our faith is under trial through difficult and trying circumstances or it is being challenged through the pressures of the world, we must never give up hope. We must keep pressing on in our faith. Our trials are to develop within us endurance and character and hope. So, they are for our good, to mature us in Christ and so we share in his holiness.

So, don’t give in to sin. Don’t decide the Christian life is just too hard. And don’t give way to pressure to give up just because things got much harder. Don’t throw away your confidence. You will receive what was promised from God if you don’t give up. You just have to wait for it patiently. For if you shrink back, God’s soul has no pleasure in you. So, please take this to heart.

Praise You in This Storm

Mark Hall and Bernie Herms

I was sure by now, God You would have reached down
and wiped our tears away,
stepped in and saved the day.
But once again, I say amen
and it's still raining
as the thunder rolls
I barely hear You whisper through the rain,
"I'm with you"
and as Your mercy falls
I raise my hands and praise
the God who gives and takes away.

And I'll praise you in this storm
and I will lift my hands
for You are who You are
no matter where I am
and every tear I've cried
You hold in your hand
You never left my side
and though my heart is torn
I will praise You in this storm…

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Thank you so much for the post.