The Lord has a way of working in our lives, and sometimes he brings us down low to bring new values back to our life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The Lord has been with me throughout my life. He's never let me down.
Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us - more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.
There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.
The Lord is well aware of our mortality. He knows our weaknesses. He understands the challenges of our everyday lives. He has great empathy for the temptations of earthly appetites and passions.
Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.
Often the work of the Lord itself may be a temptation to keep us from that communion with Him which is so essential to the benefit of our own souls.
Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
As a man grows and increases in the things of this world, if he is not careful, he will lose the Spirit of the Lord, and he will set his heart upon the things of this world.
The New Testament persistently presses us upward, toward higher motives for being good.
I think the Lord gives us everything we can handle, nothing more.