Joshua Tree National Park
And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.
“The Lord has come and has turned over all the soil of your present comfort to get rid of some big stone that was at the bottom of all your spiritual prosperity and would not let your spirit flourish.”
Charles Spurgeon
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?
Zion National Park
“Nothing whatever, whether great or small, can happen to a believer without God’s ordering and permission. There is no such thing as “chance,” “luck” or “accident” in the Christian’s journey through this world. All is arranged and appointed by God. And all things are “working together” for the believer’s good.”
J.C. Ryle
For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.
“Your afflictions may only prove that you are more immediately under the Father's hand. There is no time that the patient is such an object of tender interest to the surgeon, as when he is bleeding beneath his knife. So you may be sure if you are suffering from the hand of a reconciled God, that His eye is all the more bent on you.”
Robert Murray McCheyne
Death Valley National Park
And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
“As sure as God puts His children in the furnace of affliction, He will be with them in it.”
Charles Spurgeon
This I know, that God is for me.
Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park, CA
"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
C.S. Lewis
For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
“What fools are we, then, to frown upon our afflictions! These, how crabbed so ever, are our best friends. They are not indeed for our pleasure, they are for our profit.”
Abraham Wright
John Muir Wilderness, CA
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature;
the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.
“This is the blessed life-not anxious to see far in front, nor eager to choose the path, but quietly following behind the Shepherd, one step at a time. The Shepherd was always out in front of the sheep. He was down in front. Any attack upon them had to take him into account. Now God is down in front. He is in the tomorrows. It is tomorrow that fills men with dread. God is there already. All the tomorrows of our life have to pass Him before they can get to us.”
F.B. Meyer
"I will never leave you nor forsake you."
Grand Canyon National Park
"Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”
C.S. Lewis
Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Psalm 73:25-26
"There are some of us old-fashioned Christians, who still believe that a loving God creates dark nights as well as bright noon-days; that he not only permits trouble, but sometimes sends troubles on his own children for their spiritual profit."
Theodore Cuyler
White Mountains, CA
"Only one thing can cure the anxiety and fragility we experience as we try to control our own lives. That one thing is Jesus and him crucified, risen, and coming again."
Jen Oshman
“I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that, I still possess.”
Corrie Ten Boom
"I'm so glad that the God who has taken hold of my life holds me so strongly in His grip that even when I may like to give up on Him, He has decided not to let go of me."
-Alistair Begg
