In life, when stuff happens the instinct is to close off your heart. By leaving your heart open, it leaves room for someone else to come in.
A fatal recovery from a promising illness
The natural man cannot but resist the Lord's offering to help him; yet that resistance is infallibly overcome in the elect, by converting grace.
God shall not pity them but laugh at their calamity. The righteous company in heaven shall rejoice in the execution of God's judgment, and shall sing while the smoke riseth up for ever.
God will hold sinners with one hand over the pit of hell, while He torments them with the other.
For the turning away of the simple, shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
As the corruption of our nature shews the absolute necessity of regeneration, so the absolute necessity of regeneration plainly proves the corruption of our nature; for why should a man need a second birth, if his nature were not quite marred in the first birth?
I have a range of scenarios. One of them is a chaos, that what could happen is Congress does step up a little bit and the administration is paralyzed. And we go through all kinds of constitutional crises, impeachment or the 25th Amendment removal process. Another frightening scenario is Donald Trump is steering his way to a series of international confrontations at the same time as he's appeasing Russia.
Take responsibility for finding your one true love
If you see a Bible that is falling apart, it probably belongs to someone who isn't!
Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery.