The best sermon!
Below is a transcript if you want to carry it around with you to encouarge you.
I wanted to encourage you. Many times when bad things happen in our lives, we have these moments in our lives where we ask “God, why me?” “What did I ever do to deserve this?” I don’t know if you’ve asked that or not about this brain tumor, but it reminds me of the story of Job in the Bible. Job was given an opportunity to prove his faithfulness and many times I think God allows things to happen in our life not so that we can prove how faithful we are but so that God can prove how faithful He is. In the midst of all this what you’ll find is that God never leaves us, He’ll never forsake us, He’ll never turn His back on us. Even in those moments where we wonder where God is, often times He’s just on the other side of whatever that challenge is or whatever that issue is in our life. He’s standing right on that other side and he’s waiting for us to make it through, so that when we do get to the other side we have an even better story to tell of our relationship with Christ, of our relationship with God and what He can do with us. So my encouragement to you is to make it through the other side. Obviously some of that stuff is out of your hands and in the hands of some very qualified doctors, but in the midst of all that, here’s what I know to be true, that although I have let God down hundreds, thousands, maybe even millions of times, God has never ever failed me yet. And so here you are, this young guy in your twenties, full of life, full of energy, full of joy and you have this issue that comes in to your life and my encouragement to you is to understand a couple of simple things, 1. That God loves you, 2. That God has a plan for your life that none of us know or understand, He’s got a plan for you, a plan that we are all anxious to see you live out, He’s got things in store for you that you’ve never imagined, that you’ll never understand, He’s got a future for you that is bright. And what do you do in the meantime? What do you do while you’re waiting for this? Here I found this, I just want to read something to you.
Psalms 40, this is what David said:
1 I waited patiently for the LORD;
And He inclined to me,
And heard my cry.
2 He also brought me up out of a horrible pit,
Out of the miry clay,
And set my feet upon a rock,
And established my steps.
And then, here’s what you can do on the other side of that, once you come out of that,
3 He has put a new song in my mouth—
Praise to our God;
Many will see it and fear,
And will trust in the LORD.
I think God has something amazing in store for you and this is all a part of that story, I just want you to know that I love you and we’re praying for you, and everyone at the church, Ed, and Pace, and all the worship leaders, all of us Gabe appreciate you and we’ll be waiting for you on the other side once this is all done. We’ll be able to compare shaved heads, alright, talk to you soon buddy.
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Font Conference.
If you work in the design industry - this is the funniest video you’ve ever seen. - Thanks Ed!
