Marsha's Musings: Article--What is Your Only Comfort?

This article was so encouraging to me that I wanted to share it with you....click on the link to read the entire article. I wanted to post it all here, but the owner of the article prefers links to their website instead. Marsha

Pastor's Perspective
What is Your Only Comfort?
by Kim Riddlebarger

"... our assurance of salvation and our perseverance in faith are also the work of Christ. “[Christ] so preserves me that without the will of my Father in heaven not a hair can fall from my head.” This is taken from Matthew 10:29–30: “Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered.” To possess the comfort promised in the Gospel, I need to know that God’s sovereign care extends to all aspects of my life. Nothing happens to me apart from the will of God. In fact, “all things must work together for my salvation” (see Rom. 8:28). God has ordained all things. He redeems us from sin. And in the end, God will turn it to my good...