From the Heart by B.Demaere

It must be that as a Christian my hope was not yet solid .  I suffered depression and suicidal thoughts .   It was like a downward spiral pulling me under like the time I almost drowned in the Italian waters of a lake when I was 10 years of age.   During my depression, I realized hope was not my anchor like it says in Hebrews 6:19-20 This hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls.   It leads us through the curtain into God’s inner sanctuary.   Jesus has already gone in there for us.   He has become our eternal High Priest in the order of Melchizedek. Purpose of this post It is to show you how wonderful the Bible is, and its words are so accurate in meaning.   Hope is alive.   Our hope is alive and wonderful, it is precisely an anchor and not just a wishful thinking that per chance it is going to take place.   Our hope is solid like an anchor, and it is unmoveable.   Believe me you need it amid the storm of despair t...

  All-Sufficient and Abundant Grace (2 Corinthians 12:9) Grace is more than for salvation, it is for all aspects of the Christian life, and we could always use it.  What would we do without this all-sufficient grace?  We need it for healing, for our interactions with people and parenting.  Grace should be our Friend, it is Jesus.  We, certainly need it in our weaknesses and in our suffering. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you,  For my power is made perfect in weakness.” (2 Corinthians 12:9)   Over my whole life, Grace has been my Friend even through the deepest depressions I have been into.   For you, it should not be any different.   God is no respecter of persons, all are equals. He has abundant grace for everyone (1 Timothy 1:12-13). Since there we are dead to sins according to Romans 6:1 we are living in grace, God in his wisdom has made an even greater abundance of grace for us.   He is always the one who p...

  When Jesus says so…   Let us go… (Mark 4:35-41)   If you look at that day in the life of Jesus and his disciples, it was a day loaded with teaching from Jesus, mostly about faith and the word.  So, you would have thoughts that after the teachings on the seeds planted on different grounds and the mustard seed.  They would be full of faith and believe.  Let us look at this passage! At the end of the day, Jesus told them: “Let us go to the other side of the lake.  Picture this, they were probably as tired as you are when Jesus ask you to do something.  They went anyway and lo and behold, a storm shows up.  At that time in the story, you like to wonder about Jesus.  Do you wonder also when Jesus asks you to do something and then everything goes wrong, and you want to tell Jesus.: “I knew it or I told you so”.  On top of it all as apparently, they were sinking and almost dying, Jesus was sleeping.   Jesus sleeping…you ...