A few quick quotes:

What I am reading right now:

Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to His good purpose.
Philippians 2:12b-13

My heart says of you, “Seek His face!”
Your face, LORD, I will seek.

Psalm 27:8

It is hard to work out God's sovereignty with the feeling that life is not always as it should be or as I would like it to be. Romans 8:28, 31-32 says, "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose....What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave Him up for us all—how will He not also, along with Him, graciously give us all things? When I think of "the good," I would like to see issues and conflicts consistently be fully resolved and dealt with. But probably, God's good is a lot bigger and diferent than I think. I am sure He has a lot of work to do in my own heart. When I feel out of control of situations, maybe that is where I need to be, in order for Him to be in control.

Lord, teach me to be grateful.

Teach me to see Your work in everything and to thank You for it.

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