Our lives

Our lives may be stripped bare

"Whom have I in Heaven but You? And earth has nothing I desire besides You. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever!" Psalm 73:25-26

What is the loss of money, houses, costly furniture, musical instruments, and works of art — while God remains? What are temporal and worldly losses of the sorest kind — while God's love remains?

There is surely enough in Him, to compensate a thousand times for every earthly deprivation.

Our lives may be stripped bare — home, friends, riches, comforts gone; every sweet voice of love, every note of joy silenced — and we may be driven out from brightness, music, tenderness, and shelter — into the cold ways of sorrow; yet, if we have God Himself left, ought it not to suffice?

"Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls — yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Savior.

The Sovereign LORD is my strength; He makes my feet like the feet of a deer, He enables me to go on the heights!" Habakkuk 3:17-19

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