Broken-Down House by Paul David Tripp

I just finished the above title book yesterday morning. It was a great book! So many challenging things in it as well tools to step back and examine my own life and situations. It compares the world we live in to a broken-down house. I wanted to share the last few paragraphs of the book with you. I posted it in a note on Facebook yesterday so you may have already seen it. I thought for the ones who do not use Facebook I would share it here on the blog. Also, its easier to view our blog on my phone then it is to view notes on Facebook, so I wanted to have it to where I can read it whenever I need a reminder of the greatness of my Heavenly Father!!!!

"There is never a situation, location, or relationship that you enter alone. Your Lord is not away somewhere and he never sleeps. He never greets your calls with a busy signal. He is never too tired or too busy to respond. He will never mock your ignorance or weakness, and he does not cruelly throw your failure in your face. He will never threaten that he is at the end of his rope with you. He will not grow weary of your inconsistencies, bored with your ambivalence, or irritated when once again you fall short."



"His loving face will always be toward you and, because of the cross, you will never see the back of his head. He will meet your moment-by-moment needs- providing strength from his Spirit, wisdom from his Word, resources from the body of Christ, forgiveness that is your daily need, and deliverance from constant temptation. Even the trials he sends your way will supply what you need: the character to live for him more effectively. These are all evidences of his commitment to you, that you might be who you are supposed to be and do what he has created you to do."



"This is the God of grace who calls you to resist passivity and discouragement. He calls you to fight the urge to give in or give up. He calls you to live with perseverance now and to invest wholeheartedly in what is to come. He calls you to hold firmly to the same thing believed by all the saints who have gone before us: ' that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him' (Hebrews 11:6)."