A short time after I became a believer a friend gave me a little booklet by Amy Carmichael, called “If”. It was a tough book for a new Christian to read because it is primarily a series of challenges to the self to be willing to be in submission to God in all circumstances. It [...]
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Last night the news came through our e-mail prayer chain that a dear friend had died. She had been hit by a car two days ago and had several fractures of her legs, some head trauma and bruising. She also had, unknown to anyone, a brain aneurysm which burst as they were preparing her for [...]
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Sometimes I receive devotional e-mail from my Christian friends. There are different kinds, from sentimental poems to quotes from various theologians. Especially around Easter, these are often vivid and devastating descriptions of the physical suffering which the Lord endured at His Passion. Listed in horrifying sequence are the details ~ the number of lashes He [...]
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Several years ago I began to explore, through writing, various questions about the life in Christ. There were issues I needed to work out for myself, and writing seemed the best way to do that. Friends suggested that I could minister to others through my writing. For several months I re-read various good Christian authors [...]
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In our small church we are fortunate in having a number of young couples with small children. One of these couples has a wonderful child named Elijah. He is not quite two years old and he has recently found his feet. He loves to run. He just goes and goes, from here to there, like [...]
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Recently there was an international day of prayer for the persecuted Church, and at our church we tried to understand a little of what it might be like when the penalty for faith in Jesus can be torture or even death. We pulled down all the window shades and lowered the lights, because in the [...]
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“But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.” 2 Corinthians 4:7-10
Do you ever feel like you are in a season when the winds and rains of trouble and difficulty are hitting you from all sides? Times where it seems that every time the winds die down, you find that it is not the end, but only the eye of the storm? Stormy seasons will come. But we have a treasure, a great and mighty treasure ~ the all-surpassing power of God. During difficult seasons, this power gives us the ability to say, “I am not crushed; I am not in despair; I am not abandoned or destroyed!”
Thank you my sweet Jesus! You are my treasure. May your life be revealed in me!
Grateful even in storms,
Nicole
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