I love my purple Ipod Shuffle. It’s old, and the songs on it are old. They are the original songs my kids put on it for me years ago. The most awesome thing about my Shuffle is that I don’t have to decide what I want to hear. I have no choice actually because there is no screen showing me the songs …
Hesed=Jesus
“Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace removed,” says the Lord who has compassion on you” (Isa. 54:10). Unfailing love. God’s unfailing love. How do we define it? Unfortunately, we read God’s Truth through the lens of our experience. Our knowledge of love. …
I’m Running a Marathon!
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses… (Hebrews 12:1a) Who is in your great cloud of witnesses? Abraham? Moses? Peter? John? Mary of Nazareth? Mary Magdalene? A loved one? A friend? Along with an Army of God, (read yesterday’s blog) we have cheerleaders cheering us on. A great cloud of witnesses. But the writer of Hebrews …
We Are Not Alone
A spiritual kingdom lies all about us, enclosing us, altogether within reach of our inner selves, waiting for us to recognize it. God Himself is waiting our response to His presence. The eternal world will come alive to us the moment we reckon upon its reality. “O God, Quicken to life every power within me, that I may lay hold …
The Face of Jesus
My heart says of you, ‘Seek His face!’ Your face, Lord, I seek (Psalm 27:8). On Friday, I challenged us to make “seeking God’s face” our priority in prayer for one month. One of my friends took me up on that challenge. As we talked on the phone Friday afternoon, she spoke of focusing on a sketching she has of …