Is it possible to live with joy in our darkening world? One of my favorite passages in the Bible is found in Jeremiah 17:7-8 “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, And whose hope is the Lord. 8 For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, Which spreads out its roots by the river, And will not fear when heat comes; But its leaf will be green, And will not be anxious in the year…
Annoyed When something irritates or annoys us do we rebuke it or do we surrender that to God to remove our irritated reaction? Is our spirit that is united with Christ’s spirit irritated? No, our spirit is one with the Spirit of Christ and wants what He wants. It is our flesh that is irritated. Flesh is enmity with God. It doesn’t want spiritual things. Don’t expect it to. We can’t reform our flesh. Our natural self, our flesh was…
As believers, we desire to be refined by God to bring Him honor and be used by Him. But the process of refining isn’t something that feels good, nor does it give us an emotional high. God accomplishes the refining during the normal course of life. On our average day we don’t notice it or recognize it but typically are irritated and complain wishing life would be better. God uses those closest to us to reveal our inner character so…
Just As I Am 1. We all come to God in the same condition. We have nothing with which to gain His approval. There is nothing about us that would commend us to Him. Nothing to say we are good enough. Nothing. No one. There is none righteous. Romans 3:10 But, He says, “Come.” Even as believers, we have nothing to commend us to Him except the blood of Jesus , His precious son. Nothing. No one. So we come,…
How have you been this week? Has the news been depressing? Has your world be shaken by upside-down behavior? Disturbing? Even, shocking? When God is rejected, those who reject Him are left in darkness. What are we as believers to do? Our society is so different than what I grew up with. How about you? I mean, who could have imagined even 30 years ago that laws would have been passed to protect behavior that we barely imagined. Now it is…
