When things get rough today, remember..

[littleamazon]

Rom 8:31b-39

Brothers and sisters:
If God is for us, who can be against us?
He did not spare his own Son
but handed him over for us all,
how will he not also give us everything else along with him?
Who will bring a charge against God’s chosen ones?
It is God who acquits us.
Who will condemn?
It is Christ Jesus who died, rather, was raised,
who also is at the right hand of God,
who indeed intercedes for us.
What will separate us from the love of Christ?
Will anguish, or distress, or persecution, or famine,
or nakedness, or peril, or the sword?
As it is written:

For your sake we are being slain all the day;
we are looked upon as sheep to be slaughtered.

No, in all these things we conquer overwhelmingly
through him who loved us.
For I am convinced that neither death, nor life,
nor angels, nor principalities,
nor present things, nor future things,
nor powers, nor height, nor depth,
nor any other creature will be able to separate us
from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

[maczuk]

Great post. Here is another inspirational piece that I like to fall back on...

FOOTPRINTS
One night a man had a dream.
He dreamed he was walking across the beach with
the Lord. Across the sky flashed scenes from his life.
For each scene he noticed two sets of footprints
in the sand, one belonging to him, and the other
to the Lord.

When the last scene of his life flashed before
him, he looked back at the footprints in the sand.
He noticed that many times along the path of his life
there was only one set of footprints. he also
noticed that it happened at the very lowest and
saddest times in his life.

This really bothered him and he questioned the Lord about it.
"Lord, You said that once I decided to follow You,
You'd walk with me all the way. But I have noticed
that during the most troublesome times in my life,
there is only one set of footprints.
I don't understand why, when I needed
You the most You would leave me."

The Lord replied,
"My son, my precious child, I love you and
would never leave you. During your times of
trial and suffering, when you see only one
set of footprints, it was then that I carried you."

[Adam Knowlden]

Thanks Amazon!