WAYS OF NATURE
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The waves and wind that produce the storms of our lives are real. The struggle is real. In life we sometimes face issues that really challenge our discipleship and faithfulness. At such moments hope begins to wane and we live on the edge of hope.
Options become limited and one gets stuck, overwhelmed and crying out for help without a clear answer on the way. What do you do? Do not allow your fears hold you back when you are living on the edge of hope. They will trap you. Activate whatever measure of hope and faith that is left to keep your head above the crashing waves. Faith does not necessarily save us from storms, trials, tribulations or suffering. What it does is to give us strength to face them. Faith gives us hope when despair threatens us.
Our hope in God is not a bookmark in the Bible that is consulted once in a while. It is a way of living because hope puts its hands to work.
How lovely on the mountain are the feet of those who bring Good News (Isaiah 52:7).These words are even more relevant in our times and in our nation: The reality of dwindling and weakening faith, "diluted" and misinterpretation of scriptures, use of scripture and the word of God for personal aggrandizement, unbridled innovations in living out the Christian life, and so on, throw a big challenge at people"s interpretation, understanding and living out of the scripture.
These challenges notwithstanding, the word of God has to be preached.
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