Consider it pure joy....or Nothing can fill the gap..
Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature, and complete, not lacking anything. James 1. 2-4. NIV When I started this blog, I had hoped that it might be a place that might bring hope and inspiration and encouragement to others, especially those who are looking for something, to fill an empty God-spaced hole in their lives.. Today when I picked up my devotional book SEIZE THE DAY, with Dietrich Bonhoeffer, by Charles Ringma, I was struck by the above quote from James, the required reading, but I was also struck by the interpretation below it, headed When There is No Resolution, and a quote from Letters and Papers from Prison, by Bonhoeffer: "Nothing can fill the gap when we are away from those we love...It is nonsense to say that God fills the gap: he does not fill it, but keeps it empty so that our commun...