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He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace.
Joni Eareckson Tada
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Joni Eareckson Tada
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 15
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My wheelchair was the key to seeing all this happen—especially since God’s power always shows up best in weakness. So here I sit … glad that I have not been healed on the outside, but glad that I have been healed on the inside. Healed from my own self-centered wants and wishes.
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Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is.
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The hallmark of a healthy society has always been measured by how it cares for the disadvantaged.
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...we will stand amazed to see the topside of the tapestry and how God beautifully embroidered each circumstance into a pattern for our good and His glory.
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God always seems bigger to those who need him most. And suffering is the tool he uses to help us need him more.
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I have an interesting perspective on depending on others. I think it gives people a chance to serve. And I'm not so much big on independence, as I am on interdependence. I'm not talking about co-dependency, I'm talking about giving people the opportunity to practicing love with its sleeves rolled up.
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I deal daily with chronic pain and, at times, my pain feels like a lemon that God squeezes, revealing my sour attitude, peevish spirit, and tendency to complain or grumble. Did not God use my pain to expose my sin, I might - like many of us - not be aware of the sin of which I'm capable.
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The times we find ourselves having to wait on others may be the perfect opportunities to train ourselves to wait on the Lord.
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Now, most people who suffer realize that the Bible contains answers for their plight they just don't know where to look.
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Thankfully, God brought wise Christian friends alongside to help me discover life-transforming precepts in his Word.
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My life goal is to see the world's one billion people with disabilities embraced and encouraged by the church.
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I had to be healed of my desire to be healed.
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Only God is capable of telling us what our rights and needs are. You have to surrender that right to Him.
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God permits what He hates in order to accomplish something that He loves.
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Faith means being sure of what we hope for now. It means knowing something is real, this moment, all around you, even when you don't see it.
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When we honestly ask God the 'why' question, He doesn't give us answers as much as He gives us Himself.
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Even at the cross, God permitted what he hated - the unjust and agonizing death of his own precious Son - in order to accomplish something he prized above his own Son's cruel death that is, salvation for a world of sinners. So the world's worst murder becomes the world's only salvation.
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Suffering is arguably God's choicest tool in shaping the character of Christ in us.
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Believers are never told to become one we already are one and are expected to act like it.
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God turns on its head one form of evil - suffering - in order to defeat another form of evil - that is, our transgressions. It happened at the cross, and it occurs in the lives of followers of Christ every day.
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