Re:Verse passage – John 16:5-16 (day three)
“I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.”
The Lord tenderly cares for you. He doesn’t overwhelm you, but remembers you are dust, as the Bible says. That’s not patronizing or disdainful. Rather, God’s care for you points to how deeply he treasures those whom he has made, as an artist would treat his or her works with great caution and alertness. When the Lord says the time is not yet right for you to experience this or that, he’s cherishing your existence, lest what comes harm you. When the time does come that the Lord allows you to see and know what’s next, that’s the time that he knows you can live fully in that moment with great strength. He knows how he made you, and he stands by his work with confidence.
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