Quotes of Note about God’s Healing, Part 6
Note: The following Quotes of Note are excerpted with permission from Chapter 5 of God’s Healing for Life’s Losses.
“Faith does not demand the removal of suffering; faith desires endurance in suffering, temptation, and persecution.”
“Faith understands that what can’t be cured, can be endured.”
“Comfort experiences the presence of God in the presence of suffering—a presence that empowers me to survive scars and plants the seed of hope that I will yet thrive.”
“Faith perceives that God feels our pain, joins us in our pain, and even shares our pain. In fact, faith believes that, ‘in all their distress he too was distressed’ (Isaiah 63:9).”
“In this life, your scar may not go away, but neither will His. He understands. He cares. He’s there.”
“Sustaining comfort says, ‘Yes, you do have a wound. You will have a scar. But it is neither fatal nor final. Don’t quit. You can make it. You can survive.’”
“If God allowed work to work, then no one would ever surrender to God. So He thwarts our attempts to manipulate Him, to make life work on our own, and to change our circumstances.”
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