Do you ever feel small, not in stature, but small in how much you can impact the world around you? Snow was covering the grasses and the birds were hungry. I shoveled my sidewalk and threw bird seed out the walk’s entire expanse. Birds arrived quickly, brown ones, black ones, doves, then the bright red,… Read More »
Waiting
Waiting on the Lord is one of our greatest struggles. No one enjoys waiting and suffering feels like an eternity. The Psalms are full of David’s pleas for the ending of his great suffering, years of persistent suffering due to both his sins and the sins of others. Yet ultimately, he writes: “The Lord is… Read More »
Finish the Thought
“Satan tells me I am unworthy; but I always was unworthy, and yet God has long loved me.” Charles Spurgeon OH, MY LORD, I love this! As Christians considering our humanity and our need for Christ’s forgiveness, we can honestly say, “Yes! We are unworthy! We need Jesus!” For many years as a Christian, why… Read More »
Instruments of Love
I suppose some blessings could be just for us, for our own benefit only. But when we are told, “Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you” (Eph 4:32), we are being instructed to pass it on, to share and extend the blessings to others. 2… Read More »
WHAT’S IN A NAME? SOMETIMES, Juliet, A LOT!
In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet questions the importance of a name. Many can relate to that. Do you recall the film from 1990 where the character, John Dunbar, received a new name, “Dances With Wolves,” from the Lakota tribe? He falls in love with “Stands With A Fist.” Native American naming is considered crucial for… Read More »
It’s a New Game
Before I learned of and accepted Christ as my Savior, I did have an understanding of right and wrong and I believed there was a God, though unknown to me. It was a God that saw my bad behavior and who would not be pleased with it. (That realization is no great accomplishment. Nature testifies… Read More »
Humble Thyself in the Sight of the Lord
“Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up” (James 4:10). “He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them his way” (Ps 25:9). We may relate “being humble” to deprecating ourselves, thereby considering ourselves of no value, thinking this will be pleasing to God. But we are God’s creation and… Read More »
It’s Already Done!
“In you, Lord, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame. In your righteousness, rescue me and deliver me; turn your ear to me and save me. Be my rock of refuge, to which I can always go;” (Psalm 71:1-3). This prayer was written before the coming of Christ, before Jesus came… Read More »
All Believers, You are Invited!
“For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness, and to goodness, knowledge, and to knowledge, self-control, and to self-control, perseverance, and to perseverance, godliness, and to godliness, brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness, love” (2 Peter 1:5-7). God wants us to continually and decisively seek spiritual maturity. This is not… Read More »
Trials
“When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.” A.W. Tozer If we believe that everything happening to us does contain the potential for making us more Christlike and can be used for God’s good purposes, then the question is, in all honesty,… Read More »
