The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. (Eccl 7:4) It is the same for all, since the same event happens to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil, to the clean and the unclean, to him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. As the good one is, so is the sinner, and he who swears is as he who shuns an oath. (Eccl 9:2) Lord, help me to see more of my own weakness now, that I may trust…
Love came down and walked on earth. Have you seen him? Love was wrapped in a virgin birth. Have you known him? ———————————- Broken. Dying. Stealing. Lying. Corrupt and needy. Weak and greedy. Love came here. ———————————– In weakness he was clothed. Unheard of! And took weakness as his betrothed. Scandalous! ———————————– Have you heard this scandal of love? ———————————— To a bleeding, fallen world he was sent to bleed for paupers and prisoners. His life was spent to rescue the sinful, selfish soul. ———————————— Have you heard the scandal of love? ———————————— The king who spoke and galaxies formed…
And now, little children, abide in Him (I Jn 2:28). Abiding in Jesus is life itself. It is the greatest joy, the strongest peace, the deepest desire you can have. When you abide with Jesus, He satisfies your soul. It is good to hear God’s voice on an issue, but it is better to abide with Jesus. God speaks more to those who abide with Him. When we make hearing God our greatest focus, we limit our ability to hear because we go only halfway. God wants us not merely to hear from Him but to abide with Him. Abiding…
I was recently helping a refugee student with high school algebra and found quickly that his problems with algebra were not with algebra. He did not know basic math. He could not add or subtract fractions or negative numbers. He did not know what decimals represented. He struggled with the basic multiplication table and did not know how to do division. But somehow, after he came to America, the school placed him in Algebra, and he had homework asking him to graph parabolic functions. I couldn’t help him much with the homework because he couldn’t graph even a single point…
Lord, teach me your Word, that I may know your heart. If someone hands me the phone, and I hear my wife’s voice on the other end, no one has to tell me who I am talking to. I don’t see her, but I know her voice. God wants His voice to be something we know. So how do you learn His voice? I learned my wife’s voice by listening to her and spending much time with her. We learn God’s voice by listening to Him and spending much time with Him. Of course, God’s voice is not auditory, so…