Comments on: Deeper Rejoicing http://cottrillcompass.com/blog/2007/deeper-rejoicing.html The personal blog of the Cottrill family, Canadians living in Mexico. Fri, 16 May 2008 22:49:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Darryl http://cottrillcompass.com/blog/2007/deeper-rejoicing.html#comment-36099 Darryl Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:56:37 +0000 http://cottrillcompass.com/blog/2007/deeper-rejoicing.html#comment-36099 Here's the bit I love, in the third chapter: 17 Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, 18 yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Savior. It's not about what he's going to do for me... my Father is not some heavenly vending machine. I will love him for who he is, even if for nothing else. Here’s the bit I love, in the third chapter:

17 Though the fig tree does not bud
and there are no grapes on the vines,
though the olive crop fails
and the fields produce no food,
though there are no sheep in the pen
and no cattle in the stalls,

18 yet I will rejoice in the LORD,
I will be joyful in God my Savior.

It’s not about what he’s going to do for me… my Father is not some heavenly vending machine. I will love him for who he is, even if for nothing else.

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