Strength In Suffering

And Jesus stopped and said, “Call him here.” So they called the man who was blind, saying to him, “Take courage, stand up! He is calling for you.”   Mark 10:49 NASB So often in scripture we are exhorted to take courage, to be bold and strong - mainly from the Lord Himself. In today’s scripture, we read of a crowd telling blind Bartimaeus to ‘take courage’ for Jesus was calling for him. These people, whether they knew Bartimaeus or not, encouraged him to stand up and go to Jes

I recently recalled a song that we sang many years ago, 'Because He lives'. Below I use a few of the lines of that song with some...