Do life’s problems have you stressed out? The learning possibilities are limited only by your willingness to be teachable. In faith, thank Me for your problem. Ask Me to open your eyes and your heart to all that I am accomplishing through this difficulty. Once you have become grateful for a problem, it loses its power to drag you …
Purpose in the Trials
The purpose of our trials is not only to test our worthiness but also to increase it, just as the mighty oak is tested by the storms as well as strengthened by them. ~Streams in the Desert This scene beckons me. I don’t want to lack anything. I don’t like the storms, but I don’t want to miss what God …
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Is Your Heart Restless?
There is time and a season for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven….What does the worker gain from his toil? I have seen the burden God has laid on men. He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from …
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Whirlwind of Nothing
Steady me. I move like a whirlwind doing nothing of but stirring up dirt. Settle me. Slow me down to see–really see what You have planned today. Forgive me. My anxious heart thumps out of control and with each beat my mind thinks a new thought But none of You, only the to-do list. I need You. Thank you, Lord. …
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My Heart Hurts for Misunderstood Biblical Characters
A few weeks ago we visited our son who is going to college at NC State. It was his birthday which just happened to fall on a Sunday, so we went to church with him and took him to lunch. I don’t remember the context in the sermon, but the preacher referred to the sin of the “promiscuous” Samaritan woman …
