"Though Outwardly We Are Wasting Away, Yet Inwardly We Are Being Renewed Day By Day."

Broken, trampled, torn!
(J.R. Miller, "Help for the Day")

Life may seem a failure here, crushed 

like a lily under the heel of wrong or sin--

broken, trampled, torn! 

But it may yet become a glorious 

success. Many of the truest and 

best of GOD'S children, know 

only defeat in this world. 

They are ever beaten back and 

thrust down. The burdens are 

too heavy for them. They are 

overmastered by sorrows. 

The world's enmity treads them 

in the dust. They are not worldly 

wise, and, while others march 

by to great earthly success--

they live obscurely oppressed, 

cheated, wronged, and lie buried 

away in the darkness of failure.

"Therefore we do not lose heart. Though 
outwardly we are wasting away, yet 
inwardly we are being renewed day 
by day. For our light and momentary 
troubles are achieving for us an eternal 
glory that far outweighs them all. So we 
fix our eyes not on what is seen, but 
on what is unseen. For what is seen is 
temporary, but what is unseen is eternal!" 
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 

   
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If you have never before read Jonathan Edwards'
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God!" we urge you to do so sometime this weekend.
This is considered the best sermon EVER preached! You can also listen along with the audio!

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Grace Gems for the month of SEPTEMBER have been published in one file!