Inside Calvin’s Church in Geneva

Inside Calvin’s Church in Geneva

What Was Luther Doing When He Nailed His 95 Theses to the Wittenberg Door?

What Was Luther Doing When He Nailed His 95 Theses to the Wittenberg Door?

Faith in Future Grace Vs. Impatience

Recommended Reading:  Future Grace by John Piper.  It has 31 chapters, one for each day of the month.  Here are some quotes from chapter 13:

"Impatience is a form of unbelief.  It's what we begin to feel when we start to doubt the wisdom of God's timing or the goodness of God's guidance." (167)

"The opposite of impatience is not a glib denial of loss.  It's a deepening, ripening, peaceful willingness to wait for God in the unplanned place of obedience, and to walk with God at the unplanned pace of obedience--to wait in his place, and go at his pace."  (167)

"Patience is the capacity to "wait and to endure" without murmuring and disillusionment--to wait in the unplanned place, and endure the unplanned pace."  (168)

"The key to patience is faith in the future grace of God's "glorious might" to transform all our interruptions into rewards.

In other words, the strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.  This requires great faith in future grace, because evidence is seldom evident."  (170)

On the heals of a stroke, cancer, a crown, and a kidney stone...I found the above quotes of great comfort.

 

 

 

10 Reasons Why God Allows Suffering

10 Reasons Why God Allows Suffering