Higher and Grander

Higher and Grander

4-26-08 • 3 Comments • Filed under: Jim McClarty, The Sovereignty of God • This Post has been viewed 207 times. • Email This Post • Print This Post!

 

I am sure that many of us has experienced losses in our lives. Some of us said goodbye not long ago to our elderly relatives, our grandparents, maybe even our parents. Some of us experienced unexpected losses. Losing someone dearly dearly loved. A most painful experience, agonizing, heart-wrenching.

What are we to say and believe in such an event? No intellectual thinking. No rational thinking. What are we to say in all that pain, grief and sorrow?

Sometimes we never realize how real God is in our lives. We hold onto all His promises, our hope is Him alone, but when the trials come, when the pain comes, when things happen in our lives that just spell out turmoil and heart-wrenching losses, we cannot seem to see nor understand our God anymore. I’d like to thank Philip for putting together this video for all of us to see and enjoy, that we may realize that God is Sovereign, and that He has Higher and Grander purposes.

Jim McClarty : HT

Pastor McClarty retells the recent events of his friend Barney Johnson’s 4 year old grand daughter’s funeral. Jim went thinking he would minister to and support Barney, but instead it was Barney’s preaching of his grand daughter’s eulogy that ministered to Jim and all those in attendance with a message they will not soon forget.

Part 1

Part 2

Listen to more from Pastor Jim McClarty at www.salvationbygrace.org

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3 Responses to " Higher and Grander "

  1. Mike says:
    April 26, 2008 at 11:10 pm

    Thanks also JM for posting this in our site..

    Amen.. higher and grander..

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  2. JM Vergara says:
    April 28, 2008 at 9:44 pm

    i’ts a message that i will definitely never forget… and when things happen, when trials come in my life, i will be reminded by those two very same words, Higher and Grander, because it is true. Our God is Higher and Grander. He is Sovereign and He knows what He’s doing. No matter what the situation looks like and what it turns out to be, may it be for the worst or for the better, I’ll remember that Higher and Grander purposes are at work… like Jim, I am a better man after hearing that sermon… what great love… what great great love found in God’s Sovereignty. I don’t think I can ever put into justifiable account this so great love… I really am left in tears after hearing all this. Higher and Grander.

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  3. KimNejudne says:
    October 21, 2009 at 11:21 pm

    If not for God's sovereignty, knowing myself, I would have been living my whole life always depressed and discouraged. What a great comfort it is to His elect to know that He is absolutely sovereign. It is the knowledge of God's sovereignty that His elect are able to sing:

    When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,
    When sorrows like sea billows roll;
    Whatever my lot, Thou has taught me to say,
    It is well, it is well, with my soul.

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