“Don’t let the enemy make you feel shame for your past relationship not working. God knew it wouldn’t be long-term with Rachel, and He was already telling secrets about that to Heather… but take comfort knowing that He wasn’t troubled because you two were together. He was okay with it going on for two years and chose not to interrupt it because He wanted it to be a part of your story...”
“I’ve seen you growing exponentially through this! Even just six months ago, a mission to the wilderness of Africa is something you never would have signed up for, and now you’re about to go to every airport in the world and you’re feeling totally ready to trust God in this adventure. The way you’ve changed from it is so rewarding and you can thank God for using it.”
“...yeah, even with our backpacking trip, you impressed me and Luke and Connor. It’s not that you couldn’t physically do all that before, but something shifted in your confidence and your integrity for how you take on responsibilities.”
“When you meet the woman that the Lord tailored just for you, she isn’t going to say ‘why did you spend two years in a relationship with someone else?’ She’s going to be so grateful because of the man that you became through it, and how that prepared you to love her.”
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Then King David went in and sat before the Lord and said, “Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far? And this was a small thing in your eyes, O God. You have also spoken of your servant’s house for a great while to come, and have shown me future generations, O Lord God!”
- 1 Chronicles 17:16-17
There is a seed of courage hidden (often deeply, it is true) in the heart of the fattest and most timid hobbit, waiting for some final and desperate danger to make it grow. Frodo was neither very fat nor very timid; indeed, though he did know it, Bilbo (and Gandalf) had thought him the best hobbit in the Shire. He thought he had come to the end of his adventure, and a terrible end, but the thought hardened him. He found himself stiffening, as if for a final spring; he no longer felt limp like a helpless prey.
-The Fellowship of the Ring
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