https://brianfriedl.com/comforter-and-master/ Making Your Life's Mission Possible Sun, 19 Mar 2017 21:30:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.17 https://brianfriedl.com/comforter-and-master/#comment-2396 Sun, 19 Mar 2017 21:30:46 +0000 http://brianfriedl.com/comforter-and-master/#comment-2396 Yes!

]]> https://brianfriedl.com/comforter-and-master/#comment-2395 Sun, 19 Mar 2017 20:26:17 +0000 http://brianfriedl.com/comforter-and-master/#comment-2395 We as a culture have become such an impatient people, it seems. Our minds are deceived if we let them, to look for quick answers to life’s problems, aka instant gratification. The Lord would have us be patient and steadfast in our faith in Him and His provision, which often requires waiting, a concept with which we are more and more unfamiliar . 2Peter 3:8f: “But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient towards you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.” We have wonderful promises to be fulfilled in our future if we will be patient and steadfast. I , too, spent years seeking fulfillment in other ways than the right way, but am on a better and sure path that He has provided as for all who belong to Him. There is such an awesome future for His children, “a new heaven and new earth in which righteousness dwells. “. 2Peter 3:13. And so Peter urges us to “take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability. But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.” 2Peter 3:17. So let’s put our blinders on to things that tempt us and pursue fellowship with other believers who will encourage and sometimes exhort us, if need be. I’m so thankful for those true friends!

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