People today don’t care how much you know, but they will know how much you care by the way you listen.

Many people only want the pilot aboard to guide them and come to their rescue during times of danger, or when a situation is too difficult to handle alone. When we place our lives in Jesus Christ’s capable hands and bow to his superior knowledge it is for our entire life’s journey.

We change at each stage of life. We strive for independence in our adolescence. We launch careers and families in young and middle adulthood. Then the older we get, there’s a sense in which we become ever more childish.

When our first child was eight months old, she woke up one morning unable to lift her head, her neck would not support it. Tammy had been perfectly fine when we put her to bed the previous night. As first time parents, we were very frightened. But God stepped in with a miracle.

Those who stand the test of their trials will have joy here and hereafter. In this life they will have the joy of being tried and true.