Religion & Spirituality
The Christian life is an ongoing mental battle. There is the hope and trust in Jesus on the one hand. This faith that is meant to be settled and undivided in the Lord is attacked on a daily basis by the things of this world. Doubts, our own expectations, pain, and loss can turn our beautiful work of the Lord into ashes. It is so easy to get discouraged by our own judgment of the work we are doing for the Lord. The story of Jeremiah Lanphier and the Fulton Street Prayer Meeting provides me with my antidote to this discouragement.