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Me: God wanted me to tell you something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prodigal: What?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Me: God forgives you–yes, even for that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is from Samuel D. Robbins<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a faith in God, and clear perception of His will and designs, and providence, and glory, which gives to its possessor a confidence and patience and sweet composure, under every varied and troubling aspect of events, such as to man can realize who has not felt its influences in his own heart. There is a communion with God, in which the soul feels the presence of the unseen One, in the profound depths of its being, with a vivid distinctness and a holy reverence, such as no words can describe. There is a state of union with God. I do not say often reached, yet it has been attained in this world, in which all the past and present and future seem reconciled, and eternity is won and enjoyed; and God and man, earth and heaven, with all their mysteries, are apprehended in truth as they lie in the mind of the infinite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. Proverbs 27:1 (KJV)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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