Quotes of Note about God’s Healing, Part 9
Note: The following Quotes of Note are excerpted with permission from Chapter 8 of God’s Healing for Life’s Losses.
“Faith is entrusting myself to God’s larger purposes, good plans, and eternal perspective.”
“Faith is seeing life with spiritual eyes instead of eyeballs only.”
“Through faith, I look at suffering, not with rose colored glasses, but with faith eyes, with Cross-eyes, with 20/20 spiritual vision.”
“Instead of our perspective shrinking, suffering is the exact time when we must listen most closely, when we must lean over to hear the whisper of God.”
“True, God shouts to us in our pain, but His answers, as with Elijah, often come to us in whispered still small voices amid the thunders of the world.”
“God’s eternal, heavenly story doesn’t obliterate my earthly, painful story; it gives it meaning.”
“God heals our wounds as we envision a future even while all seems lost in the present.”
“Grace math teaches us that present suffering plus God’s character equals future glory. The equation we use is the Divine perspective.”
“We erect a platform to respond to suffering as we stand on a Divine faith perspective on life.”
“How we view life makes all the difference in how we respond to life’s losses. ‘The Holy Spirit knows that a thing only has such value and meaning to a man as he assigns it in his thoughts’ (Martin Luther).”
“The spiritual consolation offered by Scripture is a new vision, the power of faith to see suffering and death from the viewpoint of our crucified and risen Lord.”
“As you respond to your loss, are you struggling to believe that God has a good heart? Look to the Cross. The Cross forever settles all questions about God’s heart for us.”
“The Christ of the Cross is the only One who makes sense of life when suffering bombards us.”
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future” (Jeremiah 29:11).
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