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We spend much of life trying to hold things together with our own hands. We hold plans, people, possessions, reputation, health, ministry, and the future as though our grip can keep them safe. Then life teaches us what Scripture had already said: we are far weaker than we imagined, and many things we love can be taken from us without asking our permission.
Job understood this in the hardest possible way. He lost what he could not replace, yet he still said, “The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD” (Job 1:21). Faith did not make the loss unreal. It taught him whose hands had always been underneath his own.
This is why surrender to God must never be confused with a guarantee that He will preserve everything we surrender in the form we prefer. Abraham placed Isaac before God, and Hebrews tells us that he trusted God even with the possibility of death because he believed God was able to raise the dead (Hebrews 11:17–19). His confidence was deeper than keeping Isaac close. His confidence was in God Himself.
Paul speaks with the same certainty near the end of his life: “I know whom I have believed and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day” (2 Timothy 1:12). That is where the Christian finally rests. Our security is not in the strength of our grip, but in the faithfulness of the One to whom we belong.
Furthermore, Jesus warned us about spending our lives gathering treasures that moth, rust, thieves, sickness, time, and death can reach. He told us to lay up treasure in heaven, where none of those things can destroy it (Matthew 6:19–20). Much of what we clutch will eventually leave our hands. That is simply the truth about living in a dying world.
But what has been surrendered to God in faith is never meaningless. Our obedience is not wasted. Our suffering is not wasted. Our labour in the Lord is “not in vain” (1 Corinthians 15:58). Even when God removes something precious, He has not lost control of it, and He has not lost control of us.
We will eventually open our hands whether we want to or not. Death makes sure of that. Wisdom is learning to open them before death forces them open, and to trust the God whose hands never fail.
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Stop measuring God’s goodness by how comfortable your life is. The cross already settled the question of whether God is good.
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My nervous system sees my husband and goes, “Oh. We're safe. I don't have to hold everything together right now. I can finally exhale."
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Thank God, often and always. Pride and gloom do not grow easily in a thankful heart.
Is this meant to be satirical
Unpopular biblical opinion: Jezebel was a better WIFE than Abigail.
Before you start typing “HERESY!”—open your Bible.
When the whole world turned against the two husbands,
Jezebel stood by her husband and fought for him, Abigail abandoned her husband, she even sold him out.
As a man, you should have the like of Jezebel as a wife instead of Abigail if you want a submissive and supportive wife.
Abigail was not a submissive wife, stubborn and unruly. Jezebel was very submissive, calm and submissive to authority.
While Abigail joined an outsider to fight her husband, going behind her husband's back to give his enemies food, Jezebel picked up her husband's battle.
Nabal was still alive when Abigail was "flirting" with David, another person's husband—that was not a good wife. God abeg😭
She gathered crowd in the forest and was bad-mouthing her husband before them,
She practically told David, “Don't mind my husband. He's a fool. His name is Nabal, and folly is with him.” 1 Samuel 25:25
In otherword, “Small sense no de that man body, no mind am abeg." Public humiliation.
She didn't allow them to properly bury her husband before she married the man that kllled her husband. Omo!
Such a woman shouldn't be a model to our Christian sisters.
Jezebel saw her husband disturbed and she also became disturbed.
She told her husband when he was having sleepless night, "Who is disturbing you? Don't worry my love, sleep, I will take up the fight myself." The next day, she solved the problem so her husband could have peace of mind.
Jezebel was a good wife but a terrible human.
Abigail was a good human but a terrible wife.
Jezebel was the type that could stand by her husband regardless the situation Abigail was the type that could sell her husband to a more influential buyer.
I'll recommend Jezebel for marriage over Abigail.
She just wants more clients
This is why as a divorce lawyer, I constantly shout; COHABIT.
I didn’t say go and do weekend or one week together in a hotel.
Live with that man for at least 6months, a year or more together.
Face life issues together.
One person should be sick and hospitalized.
Know how this person looks in the morning on a random Wednesday.
Know if this person washes plates at night after eating or keeps it to the next morning and if you can tolerate this.
Know if this person presses toothpaste from the middle or from under.
Be with this person when something goes wrong and see if you can stand their reaction.
Know if this person prefers soup in a bowl different from swallow or eats them together (on dates the person won’t be comfortable to do this but at home, the masks come off).
Know what she looks like without all the makeup, false lashes, wigs and nails. See her at her natural state; natural hair, no nails, no makeup and find out whether she’s still the most beautiful woman to you.
See him when money is hard and he can’t take you and your friends to weekly dinner and whether it’s him you love or his money.
But you people will date one month, go on few dates to eat pasta and snap cute pictures, your friends will do “aww”, next thing you’re married. Less than a year later you’re calling to ask me “Barr please can we get divorced even though we haven’t been married up to a year?, I never knew he was like this”.
Forget pleasing society, know who you want to marry by living with them before you marry.
A broken relationship is better than a broken marriage.
