Status Updates From Knowing God

(Speaking of people in the Bible who murdered, were adulterers, and schemers) "God can bring good out of the extremes of our own folly. God can restore the years the locusts have eaten. It is said that those who never make mistakes never make anything. Certainly these men made mistakes, but through their mistakes, God taught them to know His grace...in a way that would never have happened otherwise."

" Our God is a God who not merely restores, but takes up our mistakes and follies into his plan for us and brings good out of them.... Slippings and strayings there will be, no doubt, but the everlasting arms are beneath us; we shall be caught, rescued, restored. This is God's promise; this is how good He is."