But I'm not a savior. I have not what it takes to save them or turn things around just like that. I am not any better, but I understand how it feels to be lost and alone, where people and things around you just move on without you, leaving you the stranded remains of what happened, to face the reality with. It is a familiar path.
What can I give? I look within and I find not a word of cheer to lift them up with, nor a shoulder strong enough to support them.
So I turned to His words, and onto my hands, He placed these it seems, unto me and my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ I believe. May you who chance upon these words by His grace, find comfort in them. I shall let His words speak for themselves, ending my post with the hope for the day to come, where together with my brothers and sisters, we approach our Savior, recounting the days on earth, sustained nothing more than...His amazing grace.
-deqi
Encourage those who are struggling.
Don't know what to say? Then open your bible...
To the grief stricken: “God has said, ‘Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you’” (Heb. 13:5 NIV).
To the guilt ridden: “There is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” (Rom. 8:1 NIV).
To the jobless: “In all things God works for the good of those who love him” (Rom. 8:28 NIV).
To those who feel beyond God’s grace: “Whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16 NIV).a Max Lucado devotional,
28th Oct
[Amazing Grace] - John Newton
Amazing Grace! How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found
Was blind, but now I see.
'Twas Grace that taught my heart to fear,
And Grace my fears relieved.
How precious did that Grace appear
The hour I first believed.
Through many dangers, toils, and snares
I have already come.
'Tis Grace hath brought me safe thus far
And Grace will lead me home.
The Lord has promised good to me.
His Word my hope secures.
He will my shield and portion be
As long as life endures.
When we've been there ten thousand years
Bright shining as the sun,
We've no less days to sing God's praise
Than when we'd first begun.
"Everything that was written in the past was written to teach us,
so that...we might have hope."
(Romans 15:4)
so that...we might have hope."
(Romans 15:4)