Eric Metaxas, Author of If You Can Keep It

Eric Metaxas, Author of If You Can Keep It
Discouraged in the work of life,Disheartened by its load,Shamed by its failures or its fears,I sink beside the road;—But let me only think of Thee,And then new heart springs up in me. S. LONGFELLOW
Happy National Dog Day If dogs love us so completely and unconditionally, just imagine how much more Jesus, who died for us, love us completely and unconditionally!!
I think of Veruca Salt from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, “I want it NOW!” How many times did I pray for something never realizing how truly awful for me it would have been to have received it!? Mercifully, our Lord knows what it best for us, because He holds the plans for our…
Trouble and perplexity drive us to prayer and prayer driveth away trouble and perplexity P Melancthon
I think I find most help in trying to look on all interruptions and hindrances to work that one has planned out for oneself as discipline, trials sent by God to help one against getting selfish over one’s work. Then one can feel that perhaps one’s true work— one’s work for God —consists in doing…