The real rub is that this brusque but bracing book "finds us", drives us from the balcony to the road, and hounds us out of intellectualism, mysticism, and dogmatism into a real, living, existential world where, with a hand on our throats, we are hurled into the moment of decision. Why is this? The answer must be the closeness of Jesus to each one of us, in our sorrow, pain, loneliness, darkness and tempest, temptation , hunger and thirst, disappointment, sin and rejection. James parcels up for us the vitals of our earthly existence with Jesus Christ. - Dr. James B. Adamson
"I hope to have a heart filled with faith and expectancy when I ask God for wisdom, knowing that he delights to give it. I hope to resist the magnetic pool of this temporal world to shrink my life into a wilting wildflower in a dying meadow. I want to live for what endures. I want to live for Jesus. And, Lord, help me, I want to persevere in trials, sufferings, and persecutions, and not whine myself into a pathetic lather. For once in my life, I want to know what it's like to count it all joy when I fall into all sorts of difficulty. When deform desires surface in this flawed of mine, I want to rush them to Jesus and request his swift healing."
Good words for my heart and mind to absorb. Thank you James! Thank you Lord!
"I hope to have a heart filled with faith and expectancy when I ask God for wisdom, knowing that he delights to give it. I hope to resist the magnetic pool of this temporal world to shrink my life into a wilting wildflower in a dying meadow. I want to live for what endures. I want to live for Jesus. And, Lord, help me, I want to persevere in trials, sufferings, and persecutions, and not whine myself into a pathetic lather. For once in my life, I want to know what it's like to count it all joy when I fall into all sorts of difficulty. When deform desires surface in this flawed of mine, I want to rush them to Jesus and request his swift healing."
Good words for my heart and mind to absorb. Thank you James! Thank you Lord!
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