Three coincidentally/supernaturally colliding quotes that have spoke to me in the last 24 hours
1. Betty Spackman (artist, incredible speaker): "Because He (the gardener, aka God), loves us, and those who will benefit from what we WILL have to offer, He keeps returning to us, to prune us"
I heard this at an event at my Church last night about the creative arts or fruit God will bring out of us, if we wait upon Him to develop our characters.
2. Beth Moore (speaker, writer, Bible study writer - of which I am now doing) "Satan had a sieve. Christ had a purpose, the two collided. Satan got used. Peter got sifted. For reasons only our wise, trustworthy God knows, the most effective and long lasting way He could get the Simon out of Peter was a sifting by Satan. He was right. You see, the One who called us is faithful, and He will do whatever it takes to sanctify us to fulfill our callings."
3. Author unknown, poem about the butterfly. Essentially, a man saw a butterfly struggling to get out of its cocoon so he grabbed some scissors and cut it so the butterfly could get out. But, that ended up preventing the butterfly from developing wings, so he crawled the rest of his life. "What the man, in kindness and haste, did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required to get through the tiny opening were God's ways of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved freedom. Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If God allowed us to go through life without obstacles it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as we could have been. And we would never fly."
Noticing a theme anyone?
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