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Since January, I’ve been reading books written by, and about, several women of great faith. 

All of them, women who have “gone before” – most of them missionaries – whose compelling virtue was to speak the Word of God to people who needed to hear!

Women, who lived in the early to mid 1900’s, a generation apart from us.

A generation often awarded the title, “The Greatest Generation”; and, I now know why.

If there is one outstanding lesson gained by looking into their lives it is this: 

They made it through great difficulty because each held to a solid theology of suffering. 

Our world today is poignantly lacking a solid theology of suffering.

A verse popped up this week in the Daily Light (a little volume of compiled verses, first published in 1794, that each woman held in common): 

“Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word (2 Thessalonians 2:16-17).”

These gals sought and found their courage to live amidst incredible hardship in the God of EVERLASTING COMFORT AND GOOD HOPE & He, then, in turn, gave them COURAGE!

You and I aren’t born with courage.  

We can’t search for it, or find it hidden somewhere in the grass like last week’s Easter eggs.  

Courage can be developed and lost again.  

It’s as elusive as a cloud on a windy day.  

When we most need courage, for certain that’s when we won’t have it. 

 I’m as certain as I am of the sun going down this evening, that Esther didn’t have any the day she learned the reason why her uncle was wailing in the city gates, dressed in sackcloth, and pouring ashes over his head.  

  As I begin to write about Esther, one phrase stands out to me in the early part of her story. These words are used three times, in which we are told Esther “won the favor of the King.”…

I’ve enjoyed reviewing some of the stories of significant women of the Bible over the last 30 weeks (30 weeks!!!! I had no idea).  But, I’m thinking it’s time to start winding down this series I’ve based on the…

And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals. And they abandoned the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt.…

The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things.” Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.” Just then his…

(Jacob’s Well in Sychar, Samaria today) Last week, I skimmed the surface of the story of the woman Jesus met at the well in Sychar, Samaria, oh-so-many-years-ago…  These were the immediate lesson she’d want us to hear:  No matter…

Now, Jesus had to pass through Samaria. So He came to a town of Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there; so Jesus, wearied as He was from His journey…

While Jesus was in Bethany, at the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard.  She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head.  Some of those…

  As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him.  She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what…

When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed home.  “Lord,” Martha said to Jesus, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died.  But I know that even now God will…