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God does not want the "hurt" of any living thing. In that faith, we "can go through our worst days of testing without surrender and with heads held high." We are confident, because we know we have been "sealed" as "servants of our God."
One of the fifty-three American hostages illegally detained in Iran for fourteen months tells how this promise recorded in Revelation came true for him. Lt. Col. David M. Roeder was quoted in the newspaper as saying that even during his six months of solitary confinement he felt he was "never entirely alone." Through long days of physical and psychological abuse and duress, God was with him. He drew interior strength from his faith-relationship that sustained him throughout his ordeal. As he said in a personal conversation with me, "my faith in God is what gave me my edge." Personal prayers, devotional booklets, and the faithful intercessory prayers of family, friends, and fellow citizens back in the "States" became the sources through which God enabled him to be unharmed in his inner being -- despite his external surroundings. [Interpreter's Bible, Exposition of James, p. 418, Volume 12, Gordon Poteat is the Commentator.]
-- Campbell
God does not want the "hurt" of any living thing. In that faith, we "can go through our worst days of testing without surrender and with heads held high." We are confident, because we know we have been "sealed" as "servants of our God."
One of the fifty-three American hostages illegally detained in Iran for fourteen months tells how this promise recorded in Revelation came true for him. Lt. Col. David M. Roeder was quoted in the newspaper as saying that even during his six months of solitary confinement he felt he was "never entirely alone." Through long days of physical and psychological abuse and duress, God was with him. He drew interior strength from his faith-relationship that sustained him throughout his ordeal. As he said in a personal conversation with me, "my faith in God is what gave me my edge." Personal prayers, devotional booklets, and the faithful intercessory prayers of family, friends, and fellow citizens back in the "States" became the sources through which God enabled him to be unharmed in his inner being -- despite his external surroundings. [Interpreter's Bible, Exposition of James, p. 418, Volume 12, Gordon Poteat is the Commentator.]
-- Campbell
