Bethany Primitive Baptist Church » Steven Bloyd http://www.bethanypbc.org Wed, 14 Dec 2011 04:27:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Steven Bloyd: A Message of Comfort http://www.bethanypbc.org/2011/01/08/steven-bloyd-a-message-of-comfort/ http://www.bethanypbc.org/2011/01/08/steven-bloyd-a-message-of-comfort/#comments Sat, 08 Jan 2011 16:00:46 +0000 Chris Taylor http://www.bethanypbc.org/?p=780

Discouragement comes from many quarters as we live our lives. What is it that keeps us from giving up? Where do we get the strength to continue in the face of discouragement? Paul said we had a cause for which “we faint not, but though our outward man perish.” We are to keep our eyes on spiritual things, eternal things, to sustain us through all temporary circumstances. God has promised strength to those who know they lack strength and look to Him for help.

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Elder Steven Bloyd delivered the final message of Bethany’s 2009 Fall Meeting. In Ephesians 6 we read, “Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.” Elder Bloyd reminds us that we can honor our parents and grandparents all of our lives, and that many blessings attend this scriptural admonition.

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Elder Steven Bloyd opens the scriptures to consider a question we are all tempted to ask in response to the challenges of this life: why? Why do God’s children suffer? Why do God’s children fall away, leaving only cemeteries and empty buildings to remind us that a church once met in that place? Why do we sometimes feel far from the Lord, when the Lord has not moved?

The scriptures tell us in Isaiah that God’s thoughts and our thoughts, His ways and our ways, are as far removed as the heavens from the earth. Even when we do not understand our circumstances, we can trust Him.

In Matthew 27, Christ on the cross also asked why: “My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?” That is one question we will never need ask. No matter how we feel, we have the promise that God will never leave us or forsake us, and that He will give us the strength and grace we need for our days.

Though He did not promise we would understand, He promised that He would go before us, and with us. Let us take comfort in that promise and place our trust in Him.

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