Trusting Forward
Monday 3 February 2025
As the shadows lengthen,
the day of life coming to a close,
remember –
blessed Light
Ezra 8:31
Then we left the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem; the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambushes along the way.
2 Timothy 3:11
… my persecutions, and my suffering the things that happened to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.
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Words of Grace For Today
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What memories I have, of trials, of lies, of abuse, of un-earned prison, of false judgments, of concerted efforts to destroy our reputations, of rejections, of false accusations, of being told to leave, of being forced to leave town …
of surviving, by God’s grace alone, when all else had failed,
yet being loved profoundly,
of experiencing God’s walking along with me,
of trust rebuilt from the foundations of life,
of many helping in small ways and huge ways,
of being dependent yet free,
of living the dream (hard as it turns out to be).
I’m sure you have your memories of life’s challenges as well.
Hopefully you have known and remember that God has walked with you through them, not removing them or resolving them, but equipping you to endure them to whichever end, theirs or yours, and knowing you are blessed to know life in it’s fullest and most truthful blessedness.
With the memories of God’s blessing in the past comes a hard-won trust in God’s promises for our futures.
Moving into today … all will be well, all will be well, all manner of things will be well.