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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

I've been there a few times in my life. Most don't understand it. That's understandable. However, it hit home to me when the Apostle Paul said, 'Apart from such external things, there is the daily pressure on me of concern for all the churches' (2 Cor. 11:28). A number of years ago, the pain was so intense that the physical affliction Paul spoke about earlier in 2 Corinthians 11 would have been much preferred. I can take the long hours and the hard work. I can even take the pressures on my family. But the emotional pain is the one and only thing that forever tempts me to throw in the towel. When I feel that way, I can almost hear the Lord saying to me, 'Are you in it for Me or are you in it for yourself?' That's gut-check time. Am I really a servant of Christ (2 Cor. 11:23)?
Randy Smith

How in the world can God take every decision, every act, with all its implications by every human being on the planet, leaving them a certain amount of limited autonomy to make their own choices for which they are culpable, and overrule all of that so that it all comes together perfectly into the tapestry of His own divine purpose? And that with all the contingencies - incalculable, infinite contingencies - everything ends up exactly the way God designed it to end up before He created anyone. That is a massive, massive mind and inexplicable, incomprehensible power.
John MacArthur

Bible – chinese – 新标点和合本 以赛亚书 12

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感恩的诗歌
到那日,你必说:
耶和华啊,我要称谢你!
因为你虽然向我发怒,
你的怒气却已转消;
你又安慰了我。
 
看哪! 神是我的拯救;
我要倚靠他,并不惧怕。
因为主耶和华是我的力量,
是我的诗歌,
他也成了我的拯救。
 
所以,你们必从救恩的泉源欢然取水。
在那日,你们要说:
当称谢耶和华,求告他的名;
将他所行的传扬在万民中,
提说他的名已被尊崇。
 
你们要向耶和华唱歌,
因他所行的甚是美好;
但愿这事普传天下。
锡安的居民哪,当扬声欢呼,
因为在你们中间的以色列圣者乃为至大。