A Guest Author

I recently asked my dad, John Pereira if he would write a guest post for the blog. He accepted and here it is. My dad is the pastor of Central Florida Bible Church in Winter Park, Florida. You can listen to some of his sermons at Sermon Audio.com.

Dear Reader,

Are you going through difficult times today?  Is your faith in God being tested?  Are you ready to give up on serving the Lord? Does it appear that life’s trials don’t make sense.  Let’s read God’s promise in Philippians 1:6

“Being confident of this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.”

In this passage of scripture the Apostle Paul encourages us to trust in the totality of His work in our lives.  Paul’s statement of confidence speaks volumes of his faith in what God was doing in His life. The word “being confident” is in the perfect tense which depicts action which began in the past with effects continuing into the present.  In other words, Paul is saying: “Lord everything that you have allowed in my life (trials, imprisonments, suffering, shipwreck, bad things, and good things) are all part of your process of making me more like you.  I can not only be confident, but I know that you will continue to work on me until your process of spiritual growth is completed.  Someday, at an event known as the “day of Christ Jesus” your process will be completed, and I will be conformed after the image of your own Son (Romans 8:29).”

So dear reader, don’t be discouraged.  God will bring you through your difficult times.  Trust in God’s purposes and plan for your life.  He will never let you down.

He Makes No Mistakes

My Father's way may twist and turn,
My heart may throb and ache,
But in my soul I'm glad to know,
He makes no mistake.

My cherished plans may go astray,
My hopes may fade away,
But I'll trust my Lord to lead
For He doth know the way.

Tho' night be dark, and it may seem
That day will never break,
I'll pin my faith, my all in Him,
He makes no mistake.

There's so much now I cannot see,
My eyesight's far too dim;
But come what may, I'll simply trust
And leave it all to Him.

For by and by the mist will lift
And plain it all He'll make,
Through all the way, tho' dark to me
He made not one mistake.

                                                          By A.M. Overton