Overcoming Discouragement

Acts 13:13-52

The grand storyline of God’s attitude and actions towards His struggling people ought to transform our responses to hardships and disappointments in our lives together as Christians.

“We shall feel sometimes like this battered pine, thrashed by the wind… We who follow the Crucified are not here to make a pleasant thing of life; we are called to suffering for the sake of a suffering, sinful world. The Lord forgive us our shameful evasions and hesitations. His brow was crowned with thorns; do we seek rosebuds for our crowning?" Amy Carmichael