Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled

The Desire of Ages/"Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled"

Contents:

  • Navigation menu
  • John 14:1-15
  • Related Resources
  • Commentary on John 14:1-3

    • Because he knows and understands, he knows that we need what he has won for us.

    I might be tempted to fight it off or to resist it in some way. My sadness can become my home, and, at times, it can become my identity.

    1. Feature Driven Development (German Edition).
    2. Let not Your Hearts be Troubled.
    3. Do Not Let Your Hearts Be Troubled.
    4. Home Is Not Ye~;

    We can even diminish our ability to perceive the gift by saying, "He's offering me nothing in this world; only future happiness. Jesus is offering us a peace nothing else can offer us. One of the Lent prayers says that God's graces allow us to live in this passing world with our hearts set on the world that will never end. How does eternal life offer us a peace and strength now? It offers us a vision of the rest of the story - the whole story. When we believe that death - in all its forms - is just a scarecrow, then we grow in courage.

    We are offered the courage, not only to face huge challenges and tremendous losses in this life, but we can embrace a courage which offers us the ability to love boldly, to give our lives away in service for and with others. We can, as Pope Francis urged the youth at World Youth day, "row against the current" of our culture.

    Navigation menu

    We can be unafraid to be advocates for those who are not very popular in our world. Our world becomes bigger, our concerns move much more outside of ourselves. We appreciate the meaning of Jesus' promise: Our problems don't go away. The pain of those we love is still there.

    John 14:1-15

    The discouraging reality we must face is still a reality. What changes is the meaning it all has. It can all be touched by the healing transformation that comes from his death and resurrection. And the picture, the context of it all, becomes so much bigger. It has been read many times at funerals and brought comfort to many broken hearts.

    Myers of England had a Bible that had been passed through many generations. He said, many of the pages were clean just like the day it came from the printing press.

    Let Not Your Heart be Troubled

    But the pages of John 14 worn, spotted with tears of the people who had read it and found the comfort of God. I call your attention to three things that brought comfort to the disciples and should bring comfort to you and I today. There should be no break between chapter 13 and chapter The words are inspired, but not the punctuation.

    Thus the scene in which He says these words are in the upper room with His own. They were troubled at hearing that one of their number should betray Him John According to Henry Jacobsen, six Scottish miners were forced to make a heart-rending decision.

    While they were working some 1, feet below the surface, a shaft collapsed. Debris trapped one of their companions. Then mud and water began to rush in. The miners realized that soon all avenues of escape would be closed to them, and they all would perish unless they fled without delay. With great agony the six men decided to let their coworker die rather than be entombed in that shaft while attempting to save him. They were compelled to abandon him. In contrast, God is never forced to forsake one of His children.

    The King's Heralds - Let not your heart be troubled

    No matter how desperate the situation may be or how great the problems we face, the heavenly Father stays by our side to meet our deepest needs with His infinite wisdom and power. Under no circumstance and at no time will He give up on those He has purchased with the blood of His Son. We may at times feel abandoned, but we will never be abandoned.

    Related Resources

    And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague. Here was a woman who like the leper was called unclean.

    Commentary on John 14:1-3

    Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have. "Don't let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me. English Standard Version “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in .

    Dave Galloway told of a soldier who had just returned from Viet Nam. His parents were socialites, very well to do. It was near Christmas, and they were getting ready to go out to the first of the round of parties of the Christmas season. Will you be home for Christmas? Can you get here in time for the parties?