How often I forget that God is the one who is leading and I’m simply called to follow. I get all worked up when I see a hurdle looming up ahead, wondering how I’m going to cope with it instead of quietly taking God’s hand knowing He won’t lead me where He hasn’t preceded me.
Tag Archives: devotions
Guarding My Heart and Mind
I must make sure my meditations are pleasing to God, and the pleasing words will follow.
Out of the Goodness of His Love
Our God is a loving God. He is merciful and good to those who call on His name. Though our circumstances are troubling, we can always run to God and pour out our pain, our grief, and our worries. Out of the goodness of His love, He opens His arms wide and says, “Come here, my child. This one’s too much for you to bear alone. Let me carry your load awhile.”
Peasoupers
God did not leave us to stumble around on our own. He provided a lamp—His word—to light our path. But a lamp is only as useful as the one using it.
Giants, Arks, and Language Arts
I have no idea what you are facing; maybe there’s an ark to build or a giant to kill in your life, but this is what I know. If God calls you, he equips you.
When the Righteous Pray
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their prayer. 1 Peter 3:12 (NIV) There are three types of listeners. The first type is a polite listener. They might ask how you’re doing but don’t really want to know. If you start to open up, their gaze …
Camp Kerith Brook
Then the LORD said to Elijah, “Go to the east and hide by Kerith Brook… So Elijah did as the LORD told him and camped beside Kerith Brook, east of the Jordan. The ravens brought him bread and meat each morning and evening, and he drank from the brook. 1 Kings 17:2-7 (NLT) Elijah—newly anointed …
Don’t Just Do Something. Stand There
You will not even need to fight. Take your positions; then stand still and watch the LORD’s victory. 2 Chronicles 20:17 (NLT) In her biography, Two-Part Invention, Author Madeleine L’Engle shared that she felt so helpless when her husband was fighting cancer. “There is nothing that I, personally, can do, except be there… like most …
The Strength of Weakness
“For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.” 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 I’ve been reading a wonderful book, Out of the Saltshaker and Into the World: Evangelism as a Way of Life, by Rebecca Manley Pippert (I highly recommend …
Learning to Live for Today
To get ahead of myself – to rely on my resources, my ‘wisdom,’ my self-sufficiency, is to anticipate the future without the grace God provides anew each morning to meet that day’s needs. Today He’ll provide what I need for today’s struggles. Tomorrow He will provide what I need to get through tomorrow’s challenges.