When the pursuit of your dream deteriorates from difficult to impossible, congratulations! You're in good company.
Even Paul went through dead ends: "At that time we were completely overwhelmed, the burden was more than we could bear, in fact we told ourselves that this was the end. Yet we believe now that we had this experience of coming to the end of our tether that we might learn to trust, not in ourselves, but in God who can raise the dead." (2 Corinthians 1:8-9 PH)
2 Korintus 1:8-9
8 Sebab kami mau, saudara-saudara, supaya kamu tahu akan penderitaan yang kami alami di Asia Kecil. Beban yang ditanggungkan atas kami adalah begitu besar dan begitu berat, sehingga kami telah putus asa juga akan hidup kami.
9 Bahkan kami merasa, seolah-olah kami telah dijatuhi hukuman mati. Tetapi hal itu terjadi, supaya kami jangan menaruh kepercayaan pada diri kami sendiri, tetapi hanya kepada Allah yang membangkitkan orang-orang mati.
If God can raise people physically, he can raise people who are dead emotionally. He can raise a dead marriage. He can resurrect a dead career. He can resurrect you from a health problem.
God told Abraham he'd be the father of a nation, but then Abraham had to wait until he was ninety-nine years old before he had his first child. The Bible shows Abraham's situation going from difficult to impossible.
But Sarah got pregnant, and they laughed about it. When the baby was born, they named him Isaac, which means laughter.
God often lets problems become impossibilities.
What's the best response to a dead end? "He has delivered us from such a terrible death, and He will deliver us; we have placed our hope in Him that He will deliver us again." (2 Corinthians 1:10 HCSB)
2 Korintus 1:10
Dari kematian yang begitu ngeri Ia telah dan akan menyelamatkan kami: kepada-Nya kami menaruh pengharapan kami, bahwa Ia akan menyelamatkan kami lagi,
Rick Warren
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