grace overflowing

“God does not leave His children in the depths of sorrow. Joy will come, and it will come in God’s timing.”

“When a father leads his four-year-old son down a crowded street, he takes him by the hand & says, ‘hold on to me.’ He doesn’t say ‘memorize the map,’ or ‘take your chances dodging the traffic’ or ‘let’s see if you can find your way home.’ The good father gives the child one responsibility: ‘hold on to my hand.’ God does the same with us. Don’t load yourself down with lists. Don’t enhance your anxiety with the fear of not fulfilling them. Your goal is not to know every detail of the future. Your goal is to hold the hand of the One who does & never, ever let go.”

“When I say “for better or for worse,” I’m going to mean it as I lean on the strength and faithfulness of Christ’s promises and purpose in my groom’s life. But when he says, “for better or for worse,” I will stand with a clean conscious that I have done my part in communicating what he’s getting into. By the time we exchange those vows, we will have shown our scars, the blood on our hands, the poison in our heart, the pain from our past, the fears of the future, and the undeniable neediness we have for the hope and power of a loving God who will honor honesty and empower us to fulfill the vows we make before Him to each other.”

Trying to fathom God’s grace

I trust you without question. I love you without hesitation.

There is so much glory and beauty when you go into a storm with Jesus and come out more in love with Him than when you first went in.

The great need is for us to be taught theologically, not just stirred emotionally.