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Re: Sad Day
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Originally Posted by SeekingOne
Oh how sad. If God does not wish to heal him in this life, I pray that he will not have a long life here on earth. Who knows though, what God has planned for him and those that come in contact with him? It truly is a mystery and challenges our faith in these situations.
I know someone that had a relative that lived to be almost 100 years old, and that person was bed ridden and blind for many of their last years. At the time, nobody could see why God would keep this person alive in this miserable state.
Years later, because of the witness of this person always talking about Jesus to all who came to visit, my friend came to believe in Christ in a crisis. They remembered the faith of this person, even though they were in pain, blind and bed ridden, and it encouraged them to turn to God in their crisis.
Sorry for the long story, but I wanted to encourage me and you all that even though we don't understand why others that love God and their families must suffer, but God DOES have a plan.  |
Thanks for sharing this. It does show that many times we can't see a purpose with our understanding but there really is one.
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Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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