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Control of Our Lives
My prayer is that Southsides' Blog provide encouragement in everyone's life for their relationship with God! As we live our lives many of us want to control it completely. We would be so much better off if we let God have control. We will still have problems and disappointments but God's grace and love will help us through them. Hopefully, you'll take encouragement from what Max writes:
PROVISION OF GRACE - Max Lucado
“’Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far, and grace will lead me home.” When John Newton penned this promise, he did so out of personal experience. His greatest test came the day he buried his wife, Mary. He’d loved her and prayed his death would precede hers. But his prayer was not answered.
"Yet, on the day Mary Newton died, John Newton found strength to preach a Sunday sermon. The next day he visited church members. Later he officiated at his wife’s funeral. He grieved, but in his grief he found God’s provision. He later wrote, “The Bank of England is too poor to compensate for such a loss as mine. But the Lord, the all-sufficient God speaks, and it is done. Let those who know Him, and trust Him, be of good courage.”
"My friend, disease, calamity, and trouble populate your world. But they do not control it. Grace does."
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