The Bumps Are What You Climb On: Encouragement for Difficult Days
Overview
Are there bumps in your path? Use them to climb higher!
We can’t avoid the bumpy spots on life’s path, but we can make the most of them. In The Bumps Are What You Climb On, trusted Bible teacher Warren W. Wiersbe offers solid hope and comfort for those times when you are faced with frustration, depression, disappointment, or loneliness. With wisdom straight from God’s Word, these 30 brief and accessible chapters guide you through those tough times and help you respond with strong faith.
These meditations will help you rediscover (or perhaps discover for the first time) an optimistic outlook that can help you face each new day or week. They show you how to trust in God’s promises, reap the benefits of forgiveness, find contentment, and add joy to life. You don’t have to let the bumps trip you up. Take control of your journey with the insight and encouragement in this book.
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- Provides comfort and wisdom when dealing with many negative emotions
- Includes meditations to assist in day-to-day struggle
- Encourages the reader so that obstacles in life can be overcome
- The Bumps Are What You Climb On
- God Reigns
- Three Important Looks
- Never Forsaken
- Constant Care
- In Everything Give Thanks
- Defeating Depression
- Escape or Fulfillment?
- Living Through Disappointments
- Under His Wings
- Honey Out of the Rock
- How to Keep Going
- Through the Furnace of Pain
- After the Victory
- Blueprint for Guidance
- Essentials of Prayer
- Strength to Keep Going
- Victory over Fear
- The Weaver’s Shuttle
- Help, Hope, and Happiness
- The Eternal Encourager
- Big Lessons from Little Things
- Try Forgiveness
- Look at the Possibilities
- Three Treasures
- Put Joy into Your Life
- Divine Resources for Life’s Difficulties
- Wealth That Really Counts
- Give Me This Mountain
- Contentment—Where?
Top Highlights
“A little boy was leading his sister up a mountain path and the way was not too easy. ‘Why, this isn’t a path at all,’ the little girl complained. ‘It’s all rocky and bumpy.’ And her brother replied, ‘Sure, the bumps are what you climb on.’ That’s a remarkable piece of philosophy. What do you do with the bumps on the path of life?” (Page 11)
“The third truth is this: yield to God’s will and let Him heal your broken heart and fulfill His desires.” (Page 52)
“But sometimes the road is rocky and bumpy, and we hear no music and feel no helping hand. Then what? Complain? Give up? No, that’s the time to remember God’s promise: ‘For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.’ God’s invisible army is at your service, and God can see you through.” (Pages 13–14)
“You feel like quitting, like giving up. You can’t understand why the road doesn’t get easier, why God doesn’t remove the stones and straighten the path. If God did that, you might never get to the top, because the bumps are what you can climb on.” (Page 12)
“When you find yourself discouraged or worried or afraid, just remember that ‘the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.’ This is the secret of peace and joy in the midst of a troubled world.” (Page 17)
- Title: The Bumps Are What You Climb On: Encouragement for Difficult Days
- Author: Warren W. Wiersbe
- Publisher: Baker
- Print Publication Date: 2002
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Consolation
- ISBNs: 9781441256270, 0801064422, 9780800787370, 144125627X, 9780801064425, 0800787374
- Resource ID: LLS:BMPSCLIMBWIERSBE
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T22:16:26Z
Warren W. Wiersbe (1929–2019) was an internationally known Bible teacher and pastor. He studied at Indiana University and Northern Baptist Theological Seminary and taught at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and Grand Rapids Theological Seminary.
In 2002, Wiersbe was awarded the Jordon Lifetime Achievement Award by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association. He was the former pastor of three churches, including The Moody Church.
For 10 years Wiersbe served as general director and Bible teacher for the Back to the Bible radio broadcast. He wrote more than 150 books, including the popular Old Testament "Be" Series and New Testament "Be" Series of expositional Bible studies, which has sold more than four million copies, and The Strategy of Satan.