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And Father God, we do commit today. And all that

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today holds, we commit our tomorrows into your

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care and your keeping. Whatever happens, we have

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this confidence. Our God maketh not. one mistake

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who is among you that feareth the lord that obeyeth

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the voice of his servant that walketh in darkness

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and hath no light let him trust in the name of

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the lord and stay upon his god Thus reads a portion

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of the Word of God as found in the 50th chapter

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of Isaiah. One reason that I am bringing you

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these heart -to -heart talks on sorrow, heartbreak,

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afflictions, tragedy that often comes into the

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home or life of one of God's children, is because...

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So very often you'll find someone who will point

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an accusing finger at one of God's precious children

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and will say in judgment, surely this has happened

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in that life because of sin in the life. Sometimes

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when a Christian is seen to be in darkness and

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trouble and tears, that superficial critic will

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pounce upon him and say, this trouble comes as

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a result of some sin. That somebody will, in

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judgment, point an accusing finger at that one

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who's having troubles. And tragedy. And say it's

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sin. Someplace, somewhere in that life. There

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must be sin and God is punishing. God is sending

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judgment. Remember something, beloved. The word

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of God is not that cruel. And don't you ever

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be that cruel. and point a finger at some one

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and say, God is sending judgment. God is punishing

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that one. The Word of God does not teach that

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doctrine. That doctrine is as false as it is

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cruel, and as cruel as it is false. For when

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you turn to the Word of God, it's perfectly clear

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that whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth. As

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many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. I thought

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it was about time that I would bring a heart

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-to -heart talk on this very thing. Now remember,

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we're talking only to those who are God's children.

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Know that. god deals with the unregenerated in

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a very different way than he deals with his own

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we are dealing with this subject only from the

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standpoint of a heavenly father and his child

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and again i say if you are born again If you

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are His child living a daily victorious Christian

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life, if you are living in the center of His

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will, a life of full surrender and complete obedience

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unto Him, then nothing can come to you or touch

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your life or come into your life but what He

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permits. And if he allows it, as he allowed certain

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things to come into the life of Job, if he permits

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it, then, beloved, he will be there to be your

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strengthener and to take you through victoriously.

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You'll come forth a better person. The one thing

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that I want to talk, with you about in the next

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few minutes is his wonderful love in dealing

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with his children. This thing of love, God's

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love, is the most precious thing in the world.

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And never forget, even when the sun has ceased

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to shine in your own life that he is still there

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loving you caring for you i have loved thee with

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an everlasting love and when god says anything

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is everlasting it's everlasting it's for always

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I have loved thee with an everlasting love. And

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never doubt that love, whatever you do, no matter

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what happens to you. No matter what comes into

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your life. Death, tragedy, affliction. Not for

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one second doubt. the love of the heavenly father

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for you never doubt the master's love i mean

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exactly that you ask me why god loves like that

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why he loves his children with an everlasting

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love you might just as well ask why the sun shines

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all i can say to you is it just can't help shining

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Neither can God help loving, for God is love

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himself. He is love. Maybe someone is saying,

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if he really loves me with the depth of love

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as you're saying, if he really loves me like

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that, why has he sent so many troubles? into

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my life why the affliction that is come upon

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me every branch that beareth fruit he purges

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it that it might bring forth more fruit a woman

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battled within herself wondering if god really

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loved her because of her many afflictions and

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one day she was out walking and she champs to

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pass a vineyard in rich autumn glow a great wealth

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of leaves beautiful leaves and walking over she

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just bent over lifted the leaves and she was

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amazed to find there was no fruit on the vine

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whatsoever it was just a wealth of leaves that's

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all in that moment something marvellous happened

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to her it was as though the heavenly father literally

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spoke and yet it was just to her. And this is

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what the heavenly gardener whispered. Are you

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wondering at the trials in your life? Are you

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wondering why the troubles, the heartaches? The

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earthly gardener ceases to... prune to trim to

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harrow when he expects nothing from the vine.

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I am the heavenly gardener. I expect fruit from

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my children. Do you want me to stop my harrowing,

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my pruning, my trimming in that life of yours

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do you want me to expect no fruit from you just

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leaves and in that moment she looked up the tears

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streaming down her cheeks and she said i understand

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for the very first time i understand if a sorrow

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will make me more and i can help another then

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lord send that sorrow if a broken heart having

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my own heart broken will give me sympathy and

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understanding for another whose heart has been

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broken then break my heart if going through the

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valley of suffering if living hours in Gethsemane

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will make me more tender will give me a greater

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capacity for understanding the sorrows in the

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life of another and I can be of help to another

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then lead me through my gethsemane you know there

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never was any heart truly great and gracious

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that was not also tender and compassionate And

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you can never know real compassion. You can never

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have real compassion for another. You can never

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know a depth of tenderness for someone else.

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You can never have a truly great heart without

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suffering. You can't do it. you can never give

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to another any more than you have experienced

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yourself wherever showers fall most there the

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grass is greenest and wherever you find great

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fogs of tears and mists of sorrow you always

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find hearts that are full of the beautiful virtue

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of the comfort and the love of god beloved above

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all when god hides his face say not that he hath

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forsaken thee that he hath forgotten thee he

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is but tearing a little to make you love him

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a little better i walked a mile with pleasure

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and she chattered all the way and then left to

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me none the wiser for all that she had to say

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but one day one day i walked a mile with sorrow

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and not one word said she but oh the things i

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learned that day when sorrow walked with me You'll

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never know the full depth of the love of Jesus

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until you go through a Gethsemane. Never. And

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the amazing thing is that these are the experiences

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you have to go through alone. Do you want to

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know? How real the Heavenly Father is? Do you

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want to know the reality of Jesus Christ? Do

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you want to know the depth of His love for you?

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Do you want to know the tenderness of His love?

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You pray, O God, give me a greater capacity for

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you. Give me a greater capacity for your love.

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give me a greater capacity for loving and understanding

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and yet when he begins to answer that prayer

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you shrink from it you're afraid of it i have

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loved thee with an everlasting love i'll never

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forget something that came to me when i was very

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young i'm sure i was not more than fifteen sixteen

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perhaps seventeen years of age whether it was

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told to me or whether i read it i cannot tell

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you but it has never left me a young lad betrayed

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a trust that his father had in him. And one day,

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after a bitter fight, cruel, harsh words were

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spoken, and the young lad slammed the back kitchen

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door in the face of his bed and said, I never,

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I never want to see you again. Never. This is

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the last time I'll ever. looked upon your face

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i hate you and with that the young teenager walked

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down the road and they say that never again did

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he come home could his father ever find him did

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he ever look upon his father's face in life.

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The father died. The neighbors said he died of

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a broken heart. They tried to find Willie. Years

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had passed. And finally, after much searching,

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they found him. a grown man now with a family

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of his own and they said willie the funeral service

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will be to -morrow willie came not a tear did

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he shed not one as he stood there before the

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open casket and looked upon his father's face

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death. Out of the cemetery they lowered the casket.

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Not one tear did Willie shed. Not one. Cold.

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Stealed. Unemotional. A few days later they went

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into the attorney's office where the last will

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and testament of his father was read. The family

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was there. and when the attorney opened and read

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the last will and testament of his father this

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is what he read to my son willie i leave my all

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and in that moment that man stood to his feet

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and he began to weep and cried like a baby i

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never dreamed that my father loved me like that

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i never knew that my father loved to be like

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that. One of these days when we stand in His

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glorious presence, one of these days when we

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look upon His face, we're going to have the full

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answer to the why. of all of our questions and

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when he gives us not a partial but the full answer

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to all of our whys i believe that we too will

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say i never dreamed my heavenly father loved

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me like