“Nobody wants to experience distress but the soul that chooses to embrace the moments of hopelessness in life and looks for God’s imprint on them is the soul that draws near to God in ways others never do. Our soul is prone to decaying over time, losing more and more of its purity. Life’s hopeless moments expose the soul’s sinfulness but their aim goes deeper than just exposing- they are used by God in order to cleanse and purify. Our souls are in deep need of repentance but repentance doesn’t happen without suffering. God uses the agony of our pain as a means for us to repent. There is no real repentance without distress. How else can we stop from sinning unless we get to taste the bitterness of our sin? It breaks my heart to see that we live in a time when the notion of repentance is becoming more and more faded. We no longer find it necessary to repent, as if God is somehow becoming less hurt by sin as time goes by. God never changes and neither do His standards. That’s not something that should make Him less attractive to us but all the more[…]”
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Glorious Destiny by Estera Marian
Estera Marian
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The Eyes of My Heart 