Though I am Chastened, or Tormented or Killed, nothing can take away my being a child of God.

! have been a Christian for many years. Robyn and I have many
times been overwhelmed by the storms of life. I had my
first episode of serious biological depression at the age of
 twenty nine. I had to seek other employment besides the ministry.  
Robyn and Ifelt the stigma of such an illness and it permeated our social interactions.

Lindsay Bloem

We lost our daughter and grand daughter on September 11, 2001, because a drug addict used the powerful weapon of a car to kill them.  The driver and his friends were using cocaine and "shooting up" heroin" on their way back from a cancelled rock concert. We saw the whole thing and the trauma impressed itself on our brain.   

Charles H. Spurgeon

 

Genuine Christian my reasoning is this;"I have trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ. The Bible tells us that as many as receive Him are the sons of God. I have received Him, and I am therefore a son of God."

Now, whether my Father kisses me or flogs me, I know that I am His son. I am not going to be guided by my state and condition, but by looking by faith at the promise of the Word. The Lord says that if I have received Christ; I have the privilege to be a child of God. 

"Then, whether I am rich or poor—whether I am sick or healthy—.! I do not bring them into the calculation.You must take the naked Word of God as it stands—that I am God's child. If He slays me I am His child. If He lets me go to prison, if He should suffer me to rot in a dungeon, or to burn at the stake, I am still His child! Io not look upon circumstances as at all affecting my position.

Oh Beloved, if you once begin calculating your position before God according to your temporal circumstances, where will you be? Do not talk any more of believing you have given it up—and you are really walking by sight."



Rev. Steve Bloem
Co-founder of Heartfelt Counseling Ministries
Co-Author of Broken Minds.
We will soon becoming out with an informative new
book on mental illness.

You are the apple of His eye. "Never doubt in the dark what you know to be true in the night."