Love is not earned. It is given. What we want more than anything else in the world is love. That is how God characterizes Himself – “God is love” – and even the secular artists cannot stop singing about it. But the problem is that we try to earn it. We try to earn love […]

Have you noticed how we are just looking for someone to worship? Watching a documentary on Princess Diana on ABC, I am reminded once again how prone to worship we human beings are. The only problem is that we worship human beings. So many of the TV shows and even social media are based on this […]

2 Corinthians 5:14-15–For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; 15 and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised. Throughout history there have […]

Do you sometimes feel like God is hiding from you? That, He is nowhere to be found? Or a thought occurs to you that maybe He’s not really there at all? God knows and understand that. Even a godly man like David felt at times that God wasn’t there for him. “Why, O Lord, do […]

Matthew 9:10-13-And as Jesus reclined at table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and were reclining with Jesus and his disciples. 11 And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” 12 But when he heard it, he said, […]

See if this sounds familiar. King David gets betrayed by his own son at the height of his power. He is dethroned, and sadly and pathetically moves into exile away from his son. This sight is so pathetic that a man curses and throws rocks at him. But his son, Absalom, is not done and […]

God takes our sin very personally. It’s not as if a child has made a boo boo, but as if His spouse has cheated on Him. In Ezekiel 23, God describes the sins of Israel. And He personifies the nation Israel as a woman married to Him and her sins as committing adultery with multiple […]

Hebrews 13:1-3-Let brotherly love continue. 2  Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. 3  Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.   If you think about the foundation of a […]

True peace comes in the midst of chaos; not in lack thereof. We think we will have peace when things settle down, our tomorrows taken care of, we hear a good report from the doctor, etc. But true peace comes from knowing that we are in God’s hands and that He is a good God. “In […]

Deuteronomy 31:16–And the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise and whore after the foreign gods among them in the land that they are entering, and they will forsake me and break my covenant that I have made with them. Sometimes our anticipation […]