A Good Word for the Day

Sorry for bombarding my blog with articles...but I hope that y'all read them. They are good. I've decided to not throw them away anymore...but actually read them!

Elisabeth Elliot, A Lamp For My Feet, 2 Corinthians 4:17-18

Invisible Blessings

Being very much of the earth--earthly--we
always want tangible, visibile things--proofs, demonstrations, something to
latch onto. If we always had them, of course, faith would be "struck
blind". When Jesus hung on a cross, the challenge was flung at Him: Come
down! He stayed nailed, not so that spectators would be satisfied (that miracle,
his coming down, would have been a great crowd-pleaser), but that the world
might be saved.

Many of our prayers are directed toward the
quick and easy solution. Long-suffering is sometimes the only means by which the
greater glory of God will be served, and this is, for the moment,
invisible. We must persist in faith. God has a splendid
purpose. Believe in order to see it.

"Our troubles are slight and short-lived, and
their outcome an eternal glory which outweighs them far. Meanwhile our
eyes are fixed, not on the things that are seen, but on things that are unseen."
(2 Cor 4:17,18)