DECEMBER 23
How gracious of God that the manger wasn’t sanitary nor was the infant kept silent.
The year ahead will surely present challenges for each of us. Harold Myra braces us with this from Oswald Chambers:
“The Christian life is gloriously difficult, but the difficulty of it does not make us faint and cave in, it rouses us up to overcome... Thank God he does give us difficult things to do! His salvation is a glad thing, but it is also a heroic, holy thing. It tests us for all we are worth."
Newness awaits us. New chapters, new explorations, new questions. Like the manger, even the new will be messy. Relying on our hands-on Master for direction—for course adjustments, steadiness, tenacity—seems to me to be our best path.
When answers are delayed or obscure, then deliberate, tenacious trust becomes our most heroic act of obedience.
For He shall reign forever.
The year ahead will surely present challenges for each of us. Harold Myra braces us with this from Oswald Chambers:
“The Christian life is gloriously difficult, but the difficulty of it does not make us faint and cave in, it rouses us up to overcome... Thank God he does give us difficult things to do! His salvation is a glad thing, but it is also a heroic, holy thing. It tests us for all we are worth."
Newness awaits us. New chapters, new explorations, new questions. Like the manger, even the new will be messy. Relying on our hands-on Master for direction—for course adjustments, steadiness, tenacity—seems to me to be our best path.
When answers are delayed or obscure, then deliberate, tenacious trust becomes our most heroic act of obedience.
For He shall reign forever.
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