Sentences with phrase «god into despair»

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She recalled a moment in time when she ran into a church in a time of despair and crisis and she called out to God and she waited.

We can slink away in despair and denial or we can crawl back into God's big saving hands, Isaiah proclaimed, and the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus confirmed, that this God who knows all, creates all, controls all and plans all also loves all.

It's uncomfortable to lean into the pain, to find God there in the pain and the questions, the doubt and despair.

From Nadia Bolz Weber «The Sarcastic Lutheran»: «So when I reject my identity as beloved child of God and turn to my own plans of self - satisfaction, or I despair that I haven't managed to be a good enough person, I again see our divine Parent running toward me uninterested in what I've done or not done, who covers me in divine love and I melt into something new like having again been moved from death to life and I reconcile aspects of myself and I reconcile to others around me.

It's just death and resurrection, over and over again, day after day, as God reaches down into our deepest graves and with the same power that raised Jesus from the dead wrests us from our pride, our apathy, our fear, our prejudice, our anger, our hurt, and our despair.

This would not have been news to Luther or Augustine, but it is nevertheless news that can throw us into despair if we don't cling to God's offer of forgiveness, redemption and grace.

It is the cry of God fully entering into our broken condition and fully experiencing the sense of separation from God that sin causes, and crying out in anguish and despair over this sense of loss, «My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?»

The prophetic allows «the evil» to find the direction that leads toward God, and to enter into the good; the apocalyptic sees good and evil severed forever at the end of days, the good redeemed, the evil unredeemable for all eternity; the prophetic believes that the earth shall be hallowed, the apocalyptic despairs of an earth which it considers to be hopelessly doomed... (Moses, p. 188; Israel and the World, «The Power of the Spirit,» pp. 176 - 179.)

If you choose to go this way, there are only two possibilities: either you deceive yourself about yourself, forgetting that you are a sinful man, confusing the demands of God with the standards of middle - class integrity and thus satisfying yourself; or you really take God's will seriously and fall into despair when you see that you can never be just before that will.

The definition therefore certainly embraces every conceivable and actual form of sin; it certainly throws into relief the decisive fact that sin is despair (for sin is not the wildness of flesh and blood, but it is the spirit's consent thereto), and it is... before God.

In this cry, we catch something of the depth to which God stoops in Christ; He comes fully into our humanity, our sin, and, perhaps, even into our despair.

It is his disclosure of God's love, standing by man through all tragedy and despair, to which we give our witness in the faith that death can not hold or destroy what Jesus was and what he brought into human existence.

For so it is with men in this world: first a man sins from frailty and weakness; and then — yes, then perhaps he learns to flee to God and to be helped by faith which saves from all sin; but of this we are not talking here — then he despairs over his weakness and becomes, either a Pharisee who in despair manages to attain a certain legal righteousness, or he despairs and plunges again into sin.

The God who is content, peaceful, patient, pure, compassionate and full of hope is the God who enters into our hunger, anxiety, control, shame, anger and despair.

The experience of the dark night teaches us to be more comfortable in questions, in unknowing, in entering into the lives and situations of people who are in despair, knowing that somehow God is making a way.

Elijah flees to the wilderness where he falls into despair and says to God, «It is enough.

And when we doubt, the house of cards comes crashing down, we spiral into fear and depression, and we despair of ever knowing for sure that God loves us and that we have eternal life in Jesus.

The word of the cross directs our attention toward God's weakness — his coming into the world in the weak form of a man, this man's persecution and degradation, his lonely despair and his painful death.

In my most depressed state, it was God who kept me moving forward, even though I felt like giving into despair at times.

Newbigin is absolutely right that Christianity, or at any rate Christian mission and apologetics, is always involved in a pluralist tension — the tension between confidence in God and uncertainty about living out that truth in the world, between faith as God's gift and understanding as a form of growing discovery, between knowing who God is and seeking to bring that knowledge into situations of despair or resistance, not to say anything about the diversity and conflict of views among self - avowed Christians.

When I despair and lose hope, but turn away from God I have no choice but to take things into my own hands and become bitter.

No, his despair over sin, and all the more, the more it storms in the passion of expression, whereby without being aware of it in the least he informs against himself when he «never can forgive himself» that he could sin thus (for this sort of talk is pretty nearly the opposite of penitent contrition which prays God for forgiveness)-- this despair is far from being a characteristic of the good, rather it is a more intensive characterization of sin, the intensity of which is a deeper sinking into sin.

is interpreted as God's mercy attempting to keep man from hiding, from entering into self - reproach, self - torment, and religious despair.

I am empowered by God not to repeat past mistakes; not to lash out at those who are persecuting me; not to seek vengeance in a perpetuation of the cycle of death and destruction; not to sink into despair over my own seeming powerlessness against whatever forces are defeating me.

But do not despair, for God is also wise, and He can step into the mess we have created, and work to redeem it and rescue us out of it.