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Brent Shepherd
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… because the decisive events between God and me do not occur in my psyche, my consciousness, at all; they occur in the heart of my Lord. Here, and only here, there is constancy and faithfulness; here there is a love that will not let me go, even though my fever chart fluctuates between faith and little faith, trust and doubt, and no reliance can be placed on my defiant and despondent heart.
— May 15, 2024 06:41AM
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Brent Shepherd
is on page 207 of 220
The hardest questions of life are never “removed” ... But we are “redeemed” from the destructive power of these questions. No longer can panic overwhelm us when we do not understand the meaning of what God permits to happen to us. No longer will his love puzzle us; we will learn to believe in that love even when we do not comprehend the means that love chooses to express itself.
— May 28, 2024 09:23AM
Brent Shepherd
is on page 194 of 220
What was formerly inedible stone is transformed into bread. My anxieties become the raw material for a new hope. And what was previously the burden of my life I now no longer need to bear… “The burden bears me.”
… you are the one and only person for whom we could wait.
— May 25, 2024 10:36AM
… you are the one and only person for whom we could wait.
Brent Shepherd
is on page 182 of 220
On the contrary, we see simple men who cry out of the depths, who were hemmed in by circumstances that seems to raise questions about God and yet who in pain and inexpressible confidence won through to certainty in that covenant which God had promised them and to the “heartfelt compassion” that served as a guiding star to them when they were surrounded by the darkness of life.
— May 24, 2024 05:45AM
Brent Shepherd
is on page 169 of 220
Thus God does not put the burden of decision on us to make things hard for us; he does it to help us be much more explicit in our search for him, and in our efforts to make him the center of our lives.
But if he is my future, then there is a hand that holds me; there is a heart that thinks of my good; there is a companion who will not depart for me when I one day must depart.
— May 23, 2024 07:08AM
But if he is my future, then there is a hand that holds me; there is a heart that thinks of my good; there is a companion who will not depart for me when I one day must depart.
Brent Shepherd
is on page 152 of 220
In that realm, which claims my whole heart, and all the powers of my mind, I am to search out what decisions God demands of me here and now. God does not merely want my will, which simply nods and does what it is told. He also wants my reason; my emotions and everything I am, so that I place it all at his disposal. That is how free we are - and how bound.
— May 22, 2024 07:28AM
Brent Shepherd
is on page 140 of 220
If we could love God and were thus in harmony with him, we would be done with those reluctant installment payments of moral duties.
He who loves stops calculating and abandons his scruples. His heart overflows and he drifts in a refined form of carelessness.
— May 21, 2024 05:33AM
He who loves stops calculating and abandons his scruples. His heart overflows and he drifts in a refined form of carelessness.
Brent Shepherd
is on page 129 of 220
Faith that is used, faith that is lived is the only kind of faith with the power to call the Lord into our midst with his overpowering presence. And when that happens, we discover our neighbor. There the miracle of love will transform me, and not only me, but the world as well.
— May 20, 2024 05:33AM
Brent Shepherd
is on page 101 of 220
God, too, is an artist who, despite our pleas, allows much that we hold dear in this life to shatter. For his thoughts are higher than our thoughts. He is still able to take the rubble of our life and to build bridges and stepping stones out of them, by which he leads us over all abysses.
— May 18, 2024 09:20AM
Brent Shepherd
is on page 90 of 220
She “threw the sack of his promises down at his feet,” and the Savior cannot step over that sack. It wasn’t her great faith that conquered. She herself conquered because she took the Savior at his word. She let the heart of God conquer his silence.
— May 17, 2024 08:05AM
