Jacob recognises his sin and acknowledges that he has done nothing to deserve God’s goodness, yet he pleads that God will keep the promise He had made all of those years earlier.
Tag: faith journey
He straightened up, looked me straight in the eye and asked the question that changed my life.
As a talented photographer with a keen eye for beauty, Gladys was inspired to embark on a unique project: creating a photo book documenting 1000 things she was grateful for.
As followers of Jesus, we may have moments or situations that stop us in our tracks. We are left with no strength or a fear for the future ahead of us.
However bleak, long or humanly impossible our present circumstances seem, God will always come through, faithful to His every promise to us.
I’ve learned that God isn’t always about moments, but long-term. And long-term means you don’t always see the outcome.
Lately I’ve been trying to see God in the world around me, looking at the little, seemingly insignificant things to see something greater.
At the end of the study, he stood up and said, “I’m satisfied! I came today to test you all to observe if you are speaking biblical truth and I can now see that you do."
I’ve told those around me, “God has not forgotten me; He has something even greater in store for me.”
Young Ellen came to see God “as a tyrant, who delighted in the agonies of the condemned”.
