June 17, 2013: THERE IS HOPE!
Category: General
Posted by: IDF Webmaster
THERE IS HOPE!
THE NEWS FROM TELEVISION, RADIO, NEWSPAPER AND OTHER MEDIA SOURCES ARE FULL OF STORIES TELLING US THAT OUR NATION AND OUR PEOPLE ARE IN TROUBLE. FROM THE OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING TO 9-11, FROM THE CATASTROPHIC OCCURRENCES OF NATURAL DISASTERS; TSUNAMIS, HURRICANES, FIRES, EARTHQUAKES, TORNADOES; TO THE DEATH AND DESTRUCTION OF WARS AND RUMORS OF WAR HAPPENING ABROAD AND ON OUR CITY STREETS. WE HEAR THE HORROR STORIES AND SEE FOOTAGE OF PEOPLE IN PERIL THAT LEAVE LASTING IMPRINTS IN OUR MINDS FOR DECADES. HERE AT HOME WE ARE FEELING THE AFFECTS OF OUR ECONOMY; HAVING TO CONSERVE, REDUCE, CUT-BACK, CUT OUT, FURLOUGH AND LIVE LOW. WE BUILD UP TO TEAR DOWN, AND TEAR UP TO REBUILD. WE ARE CHALLENGED AND CHARGED TO FIND NEW AND CREATIVE WAYS OF DOING WHAT WE DO; THE ROUTINE THINGS, THOSE THINGS THAT ARE THE NORMAL DAY TO DAY. WE STRUGGLE TO ACCEPT THE THINGS CANNOT CHANGE, YET WE FOR MOST, WE CHEERED AND HAILED A NEW MESSAGE OF A PRESIDENT WHOSE MESSAGE WAS ALL ABOUT 'CHANGE' HOWEVER PERSONALLY, WE STRUGGLE WITH TROUBLES IN HOW WE LIVE; MANAGING MARRIAGES, FINANCES, FAMILY AND OUR FUTURE. MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS, "WE ARE TROUBLED ON EVERY SIDE, YET NOT DISTRESSED; WE ARE PERPLEXED, BUT NOT IN DESPAIR; PERSECUTED, BUT NOT FORSAKEN; CAST DOWN, BUT NOT DESTROYED;" (2 CORINTHIANS 4:8-10). THERE'S TROUBLE EVERYWHERE, BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT OUR GOD IS STANDING BY AND IN HIM, THERE IS HOPE!
Minister D. Maxwell
THE NEWS FROM TELEVISION, RADIO, NEWSPAPER AND OTHER MEDIA SOURCES ARE FULL OF STORIES TELLING US THAT OUR NATION AND OUR PEOPLE ARE IN TROUBLE. FROM THE OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING TO 9-11, FROM THE CATASTROPHIC OCCURRENCES OF NATURAL DISASTERS; TSUNAMIS, HURRICANES, FIRES, EARTHQUAKES, TORNADOES; TO THE DEATH AND DESTRUCTION OF WARS AND RUMORS OF WAR HAPPENING ABROAD AND ON OUR CITY STREETS. WE HEAR THE HORROR STORIES AND SEE FOOTAGE OF PEOPLE IN PERIL THAT LEAVE LASTING IMPRINTS IN OUR MINDS FOR DECADES. HERE AT HOME WE ARE FEELING THE AFFECTS OF OUR ECONOMY; HAVING TO CONSERVE, REDUCE, CUT-BACK, CUT OUT, FURLOUGH AND LIVE LOW. WE BUILD UP TO TEAR DOWN, AND TEAR UP TO REBUILD. WE ARE CHALLENGED AND CHARGED TO FIND NEW AND CREATIVE WAYS OF DOING WHAT WE DO; THE ROUTINE THINGS, THOSE THINGS THAT ARE THE NORMAL DAY TO DAY. WE STRUGGLE TO ACCEPT THE THINGS CANNOT CHANGE, YET WE FOR MOST, WE CHEERED AND HAILED A NEW MESSAGE OF A PRESIDENT WHOSE MESSAGE WAS ALL ABOUT 'CHANGE' HOWEVER PERSONALLY, WE STRUGGLE WITH TROUBLES IN HOW WE LIVE; MANAGING MARRIAGES, FINANCES, FAMILY AND OUR FUTURE. MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS, "WE ARE TROUBLED ON EVERY SIDE, YET NOT DISTRESSED; WE ARE PERPLEXED, BUT NOT IN DESPAIR; PERSECUTED, BUT NOT FORSAKEN; CAST DOWN, BUT NOT DESTROYED;" (2 CORINTHIANS 4:8-10). THERE'S TROUBLE EVERYWHERE, BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT OUR GOD IS STANDING BY AND IN HIM, THERE IS HOPE!
Minister D. Maxwell
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