Hope...the Best of Things
One thing has saved her: the heaven-sent hope found only in Christ.
If hope is scarce in your life, this special booklet will draw you-toward a fresh perspective on suffering, true scriptural encouragement, and this beloved author's hard-won insights about the goodness of God.
In her life's journey Joni has learned to meet suffering on God's terms. She has learned that joy is for real. And most of all, she has learned that hope is the best of things when we give it a chance. This book powerfully communicates all these truths from someone who has lived them, so that you can live them too, no matter what you're going through.
Top Highlights
“For me, suffering is still that jackhammer breaking apart my rocks of resistance every day. It’s still the chisel that God is using to chip away at my self-sufficiency and my self-motivation and my self-consumption. Suffering is still that sheepdog snapping and barking at my heels, driving me down the road to Calvary where otherwise I do not want to go. My human nature, my flesh, does not want to endure hardship like a good soldier (2 Tim. 2:3) or follow Christ’s example (1 Pet. 2:21) or welcome a trial as friend. No, my flesh does not want to rejoice in suffering (Rom. 5:3) or be holy as he is holy (1 Pet. 1:15). But it is at Calvary, at the cross, where I meet suffering on God’s terms.” (source)
“‘In my distress I called upon the LORD ; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears. Then the earth reeled and rocked. . . . Smoke went up from his nostrils. . . . He bowed the heavens and came down. . . . He sent from on high, he took me. . . . He rescued me’—and here’s the best part—‘because he delighted in me’ (vv. 6–19).” (source)
“Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.’ At that moment, Red realizes he has two choices: ‘Get busy livin’ or get busy dyin’.’” (source)
“It is when your soul has been blasted bare, when you feel raw and undone, that you can be better bonded to the Savior” (source)
“The world can’t see Jesus endure suffering with grace because he’s not here on earth, but you and I are” (source)
Product Details
- Title : Hope...the Best of Things
- Author: Tada, Joni Eareckson
- Publisher: Crossway
- Publication Date: 2008
- ISBN: 9781433522338
Joni Eareckson Tada is CEO of Joni and Friends, a global ministry that serves the practical and spiritual needs of people with disabilities. She is also an artist and the author of numerous bestselling books, including Joni; A Place of Healing; and When God Weeps. Joni and her husband, Ken, reside in Calabasas, California.