2 Corinthians 6:12-You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted in your own affections. Everyday meets us with the challenge of managing our affections. Whether that’s engaging our families, co-workers, classmates, or friends, our affections are either freely expressed or “muted” depending on who we are engaged with.However, in a way of protecting ourselves, we can get […]
Exodus 13:17–When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near. For God said, “Lest the people change their minds when they see war and return to Egypt.” The more I look back on what I desired to happen, I thankfully appreciate what God didn’t let happen. Because humbly I […]
Job 29:2-4–“Oh, that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me, 3 when his lamp shone upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness, 4 as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was upon my tent, From time to time my wife will gather the kids around, and […]
Exodus 8:15–But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart and would not listen to them, as the Lord had said. For all us, the fight to be consistent may be the most “telling thing” about our brokenness from sin. Having a proper view of ourselves as sinners saved by grace is important, because it informs us of […]
Luke 8:24-25–And they went and woke him, saying, “Master, Master, we are perishing!” And he awoke and rebuked the wind and the raging waves, and they ceased, and there was a calm. 25 He said to them, “Where is your faith?” … Where is God? This is the question of our hearts when circumstances are more overwhelming than His presence…In the […]
Exodus 2:11-12–One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people andlooked on their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people. 12 He looked this way and that, and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. We see Moses having […]
Philippians 4:9–What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you. The well known phrase “more is caught than taught” is a simple lesson, but truly a humbling task to fulfill. Think about how we teach, discipline, or give advice to people out of genuine concern, compared to the […]
Mark 15:30–save yourself, and come down from the cross!”There is something particular in movies, plays and books, with storylines of self-denial and suffering for the sake of a relationship, a cause, or nation that we universally admire. Whether a person is “faith based” or not, denying oneself for the benefit of another will always be […]
Romans 13:10-Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. Depending how “in-tune” we are with our heart, we generally know when our love has “waned”. That’s why the goal is to “catch” any hardness in our hearts, that it does not affect our thoughts and eventually our actions, so we can call our […]
Romans 8:19–For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. When I was about 20 years old, my grandmother who shortly passed afterwards, told me that I needed to marry “a good church girl”. It wasn’t until I came to Christ at 23 and got married at 25, that I realized that […]