I AM Bible Study by Rose Publishing

Author:Rose Publishing
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781649380067
Publisher: Rose Publishing
Published: 2020-07-15T18:08:05+00:00

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George Herbert was an English poet in the early seventeenth century. He came from a wealthy Welsh family. When he was three years old, his father passed away. At the age of twenty-seven, he became a public orator, and at thirty-two a member of Parliament. However, five years later, he walked away from his life of power and privilege to pastor a church in a small town. One of his enduring poems titled “The Bag” contains this verse:

Away, Despair! My gracious Lord doth hear:

Though winds and waves assault my keel,

He doth preserve it: he doth steer,

Ev’n when the boat seems most to reel:

Storms are the triumph of his art:

Well may he close his eyes, but not his heart.

“Storms are the triumph of his art.” That’s a beautiful line, but sometimes very ugly to live through. It’s normal and human to feel just like Lazarus’s sisters did after he died. We wonder why God didn’t arrive on the scene earlier. Why he didn’t intervene. Why he did not work in the ways we expected of him. Through all of those moments, Jesus demonstrates his compassion and care for us as he helps us learn that he is everything we need. He is the resurrection and our life—so “Away, Despair!”

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