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This week’s FMF writing prompt is: ADVANTAGE
Setting my timer for five minutes, and . . . GO.Â
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the differences between believers and unbelievers.
We have the same experiences, the same successes, the same losses, the same heartaches, the same ramifications of living in a fallen world.
After all, “he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust” (Matthew 5:45).
But there is one marked difference — as believers, we possess an unwavering, irrevocable hope.
That is our advantage. We can face the darkness knowing that the everlasting light is coming soon.
I often wonder how those who don’t know and love the Lord cope when faced with devastating news, diagnoses, or circumstances. Where do they turn? How do they stay afloat?
Last night we started a women’s Bible study at my church on the book of Ephesians, and the whole first chapter is just packed full of the bounty of spiritual blessings we posses in Christ.
And guess what? None of them can be taken away.
Every earthly blessing we’ve been given could be revoked at any time — even our families and loved ones. But in Christ, no one can snatch away the spiritual blessings we’ve been lavished with.
“So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” ~ 2 Corinthians 4:18
STOP.
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Join the link-up with your own five-minute freewrite on the prompt, ADVANTAGE, here, then visit your link-up neighbor to read their post and leave an encouraging comment:
I have an advantage
that grows with every breath,
and this is how I manage:
I daily face the death
that the Good Lord has ordained,
and do not have complaint.
Past my sell-by I’ve remained,
and though I’m not a saint,
I do the very best I can
upon this broken ground,
and I guess it suits The Man
to keep my butt around
’cause they’s so many seems so down,
and the world can use a clown.
Just under five minutes.
“I often wonder how those who don’t know and love the Lord cope when faced with devastating news, diagnoses, or circumstances” — that is something I often wonder too.
“Every earthly blessing we’ve been given could be revoked at any time — even our families and loved ones. But in Christ, no one can snatch away the spiritual blessings we’ve been lavished with.” Amen. Amen. Amen!! Thanks for this encouraging reminder, Kate.