From Digital Liturgies today, this fantastic quote: To spend one’s life avoiding that suffering means to spend one’s life avoiding a glory that cannot come any other way. In Christ, life is laid out in front of you with success on one side and failure on the other, but both meet at the throne of God. Your heart may break. Your dreams may fail. Your hopes may be dashed. But you will only ever fall into the arms of mercy. Your life will never be wasted, your joy will never be empty, and your glory will never fade.
A well-written and much-needed post, Samuel. Thank you for putting in the time and effort to craft this and share it over Substack. May we be reminded on our high and low days alike that we work not for our own glory but for Christ's. What a wonderful comforter we have!
THANK GOD for this wonderful post, which has come just as I am seemingly failing to sell my house! I knew God was with me and my wife as she died prematurely of a long and painful illness, but for some weird reason our house not selling has upset me. So articles like this are manna from heaven (as was the wonderful funeral sermon, from Psalm 146, that I heard today).
Christopher, I am sorry and have a share in your loss. My wife also died after fighting pancreatic cancer for over three years. This note comes with a prayer for you that this word, and God's Word imbedded in it, would dwell deeply in your heart.
From Digital Liturgies today, this fantastic quote: To spend one’s life avoiding that suffering means to spend one’s life avoiding a glory that cannot come any other way. In Christ, life is laid out in front of you with success on one side and failure on the other, but both meet at the throne of God. Your heart may break. Your dreams may fail. Your hopes may be dashed. But you will only ever fall into the arms of mercy. Your life will never be wasted, your joy will never be empty, and your glory will never fade.
(Shared as a note on Substack)
Great article - we do need a theology of failure in the Christian life - thanks for writing this!
A well-written and much-needed post, Samuel. Thank you for putting in the time and effort to craft this and share it over Substack. May we be reminded on our high and low days alike that we work not for our own glory but for Christ's. What a wonderful comforter we have!
THANK GOD for this wonderful post, which has come just as I am seemingly failing to sell my house! I knew God was with me and my wife as she died prematurely of a long and painful illness, but for some weird reason our house not selling has upset me. So articles like this are manna from heaven (as was the wonderful funeral sermon, from Psalm 146, that I heard today).
Christopher, I am sorry and have a share in your loss. My wife also died after fighting pancreatic cancer for over three years. This note comes with a prayer for you that this word, and God's Word imbedded in it, would dwell deeply in your heart.
Thank you so much dear brother! And from someone who knows! Hallelujah!