reflection - Jeremiah 17:17
Jeremiah 17:17 You must not become to me a terror, you are my refuge in the day of disaster. Spurgeon’s reflection on this verse this morning hits hard… The path of the Christian is not always bright with sunshine; he has his seasons of darkness and of storm. My whole life has not been easy, my story has ups and downs like anyone’s. God has been faithful to me, to bring me through trial - both when I feel and believe I am undergoing it, and before I knew what trial was but nonetheless was in an imperfect situation. For several years it was too easy for me say “blessed be the name of the Lord”. Even today, it should be too easy, but I feel the sunshine has been missing for some time, weeks or months. In this season I’ve been bogged down, mostly with work. That bleeds into family stuff, the stress and chaos of my job makes it easy to be impatient with my kids. In that moment of impatience, God is good to remind me of how patient he is with me, but that doesn’t fix my parenting… It opens…