On this rainy Monday morning, I wrote a letter to a friend to hopefully provide him with some encouragement...
Like many Christians, including myself, we can easily become weary and worn-out by the many stresses that life brings our way. As with anyone else, we must face our own problems and difficulties which can take a toll on a person physically, emotionally, and even spiritually.
So after I said a prayer for my friend, I told him to keep going forward on his journey with God, and not to allow anything or anyone to deter him from this objective. I said, "Always allow the Holy Spirit to continually fill your heart with His peace, joy and power." I also advised him to keep his spiritual eyes on Jesus, and not on people. Instead, I recommended he pray for those who profess to have faith in Christ but appear to be indifferent and apathetic to the word of God and to the church.
Then, in the final paragraph of my letter, I asked my friend to read and ponder a passage from the Old Testament book of Lamentations. It's one of my favorite passages, I wrote. It is a section of the Scriptures that I try to read often because it has been so helpful and uplifting: Lamentations 3:21-26.
D.B.
So after I said a prayer for my friend, I told him to keep going forward on his journey with God, and not to allow anything or anyone to deter him from this objective. I said, "Always allow the Holy Spirit to continually fill your heart with His peace, joy and power." I also advised him to keep his spiritual eyes on Jesus, and not on people. Instead, I recommended he pray for those who profess to have faith in Christ but appear to be indifferent and apathetic to the word of God and to the church.
Then, in the final paragraph of my letter, I asked my friend to read and ponder a passage from the Old Testament book of Lamentations. It's one of my favorite passages, I wrote. It is a section of the Scriptures that I try to read often because it has been so helpful and uplifting: Lamentations 3:21-26.
D.B.
