God's grace

dear Lord Jesus,
thank You for bringing me through Monday and Tuesday.
many deadlines.
needing more of Thy grace each day!
can't wait to get a breather.

Grace

“God never place us in any position in which we can not grow. We may fancy that He does. We may fear we are so impeded by fretting, petty cares that we are gaining nothing; but when we are not sending any branches upward, we may be sending roots downward. Perhaps in the time of our humiliation, when everything seems a failure, we are making the best kind of progress.” Elizabeth Prentiss

“But [God] said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong” 2 Corinthians 12:9-10

Deu 1.30

"The Lord you God Who goeth before you, He shall fight for you."

There comes a word which I think will bring some of a you a very tender comfort, for the Spirit of God goes on to speak of the wilderness and what happened there:"Thou hast seen how that the Lord thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son."

Has He not done so through all the wilderness days that we have ever known? Will He not do so through any dry places that may lie before us? Then is there anything, can there by anything to fear? We are His soldiers, thank God for that; we are His nurslings, too. We are never too grow-up to be, as Brother Lawrence puts it, "extremely caressed by Him."

~Amy Carmichael