At some point, even the greatest misery begins to fade. Life, or what passes for life, plods on in it's own unending weary footsteps, and somehow we plod along with it, if we stay lucky.
When God __aves_ people in this life, by working through His Spirit to bring them to faith, and by leading them to follow Jesus in discipleship, prayer, holiness, hope and love, such people are designed _ it isn__ too strong a word _ to be a sign and foretaste of what God wants to do for the entire cosmos. What__ more, such people are not just to be a sign and foretaste of that ultimate __alvation_; they are to be part of the means by which God makes this happen in both the present and the future.
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When God __aves_ people in this life, by working through His Spirit to bring them to faith, and by leading them to follow Jesus in discipleship, prayer, holiness, hope and love, such people are designed _ it isn__ too strong a word _ to be a sign and foretaste of what God wants to do for the entire cosmos. What__ more, such people are not just to be a sign and foretaste of that ultimate __alvation_; they are to be part of the means by which God makes this happen in both the present and the future.
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