Monthly Message
by Dean Allen
Dean Allen serves as a deacon at SRVBC and is the author of SRVBC's Monthly Message
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Dean Allen serves as a deacon at SRVBC and is the author of SRVBC's Monthly Message
Previous Messages:
January 2024
February 2024
March 2024
Stand Firm In The Lord
August 2021
The devil wants us to doubt, stumble, and fall but the Lord is with us and desires us to stand firm. The hymn writer Mosie Lister wrote, “In the dark of the midnight have I oft hid my face, while the storms howl above me, and there’s no hiding place. ’Mid the crash of the thunder, precious Lord hear my cry, “Keep me safe ’til the storm passes by.” The Lord doesn’t promise to save us from the storms but to take us through them. He is our Captain, and we are safe in His ship. One day we will look back on our lives and see how the Lord has been with us and brought us through so many things.
William M. Batten, the late American businessman and chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, once said, “When I hear my friends say they hope their children don’t have to experience the hardships they went through, I don’t agree. Those hardships made us what we are. You can be disadvantaged in many ways, and one way may be not having had to struggle.” Let us not be afraid but trust our heavenly Father in the dark the same as in the light. May we cling to Him and stand firm. The storm will pass by, and we will make it through.