Here is an anointed clip from the preaching of John Piper.
When People Try to Hurt You
Sometimes people will try to hurt you. When that happens, see to it you are completely right with God. If God is for us, does it really matter who is against us? (Romans 8:31) He can defend you. Humble yourself under the mighty hand of God. He will exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.” (1 Peter 5:7) For many years now I have been comforted by these words:
Thomas a Kempis wrote;
“Regard not much who is for thee, or against thee, but mind what thou art about, and take care that God may be with thee in every thing thou doest. Have a good conscience, and God will defend thee. For whom God will help, no man’s perverseness shall be able to hurt.
If thou canst be silent and suffer, without doubt thou shalt see that the Lord will help thee. He knoweth that time and manner how to deliver thee, and therefore thou oughtest to resign thyself unto Him. It belongs to God to help, and to deliver from all confusion. If is often very profitable, to keep us more humble, that others know and rebuke our faults.”
Joe _ the Encourager
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Ken Pierpont; Acts of the Apostles
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Garrison Just Doesn’t Get It
Garrison Keillor is a funny man, but I don’t think he has heard the call of the wild. What do you think?
What truly cheers me up through these dog days of summer is the thought that two old friends of mine are up north on a canoe trip in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area and that I am not there with them. I am here, reading the paper, and if I wanted to go to a movie, I could go, and if I wished to use a flush toilet, I could do that, too. But for the grace of God, I could be sitting on the ground, filthy, embittered, a homeless person, eating freeze-dried food and listening to the Master Woodsman tell you what a great experience you’re having and meanwhile the woods are not lovely, just dark and deep, and a cloud of mosquitoes has come out to avenge the white man’s colonizing of North America. I have been on canoe trips, I know what goes on. — Garrison Keillor
Confusing
In October of 2005 we drove west on an adventure with the boys. In Colorado we drove up in to the Rocky Mountains and spent an afternoon in Estes Park. While the boys hiked around the village I stayed in the car and nursed by “out of joint” foot. I groaned and prayed and gritted my teeth, but while I was there I observed something that struck be as funny. Across the street was a man in a pleated skirt. He had long hair pulled into a pony tail. He was with a woman who’s hair was cut very short. She was wearing pants. When they reached the building he held the door for her. Things are getting so confusing these days.
Wild at Heart
Speaking of wild at heart, here is an interesting quote I ran across in my journal the other day: “It is not really a wilderness if there is nothing out there that can eat you.”
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