I love when God validates His words to me through another believer. God has given me two words for the New Year -- LIVE ANTICIPATING! Here is the affirming email i received from a brother in Christ, today:
Kerry I just read your blog on anticipating in 2023 and a morning devotional on How Faith Works by Ray Steadman. He quoted the following:
"Perhaps the most characteristic thing is that faith always anticipates, i.e., it moves toward a clearly expected event in the future. It was Soren Kierkegaard, the Danish philosopher, who said, "Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward." With that fact none can quarrel. But without faith, life must therefore be a blind march into mystery: We cannot know where we are going; we do not know what is coming, we do not see what lies ahead. The future is an imponderable enigma to those without faith; anything can happen. Therefore there is always a sense of anxiety in trying to look ahead.
But faith believes that God has revealed something about the future; not everything, but something. And what he has revealed is quite enough for us to know. He used Abraham as an example faith seizes upon a revealed event and begins to live in anticipation of it. Therefore, faith gives life a goal, purpose and destination. It is a look into the future.
He used Abraham as an example "by faith he sojourned in the land of promise." (Hebrews 11:9a RSV.)
This is reassuring encouragement in God's word. Thanks for all of your encouragement.
Your friend
Bubba
LIVE ANTICIPATING!!!!!!!
Pastor Kerry Willis
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