2 Tim 2:10 ESV "Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the Elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory."
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Friday, February 24, 2012
Luther on Trusting God in the Bad Times
Why then should we fear if this God favours us? Why should we tremble at
the anger of the whole world? If He is our dwelling place, shall we not
be safe though the heavens should go to wrack? For we have a Lord
greater than all the world. We have a Lord so mighty that at his word
all things sprang into being. And yet we are so fainthearted that if the
anger of a single prince or king, nay, even of a single neighbour, is
to be borne, we tremble and droop in spirit. Yet in comparison with this
King, all things beside in the whole world are but as the lightest dust
which a slight breath moves from its place, and suffers not to be
still. In this way this description of God is consolatory, and trembling
spirits ought to look to this consolation in their temptations and
dangers.
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