What a merciful God and loving Father we have! We were once dead in our trespasses happily letting our bodies do whatever they desired in accordance with every dark and evil force of wickedness. Without acknowledging Him, we carried on as children deserving His wrath. But God, being rich in mercy, had other plans […]
As a parent of 22 children, I have certainly been wronged a time or two. I have to say that lying, stealing, and disrespect are the top 3 behaviors I struggle to respond well to. It may have something to do with the fact of entering high school at 4′ 10″ and under 100 pounds […]
God is a God of even scales who sees everything and satisfies those scales with love overflowing. He asks of us behavior He knows is impossible without giving our hearts completely to Him. Jesus challenges us to be merciful and loving to even indignant and evil persons. For it is easy to be kind […]
The Wisdom’s of God is certainly different from worldly wisdom. Godly wisdom is, “…first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy.” (James 3:17 NASB). Godly wisdom has a gentle strength and confidence that cannot be broken nor matched by the world. Wisdom tells us that we need […]
The sin of enemies always threatens the testimony of God but never has any power to deliver on this threat when love is present. It’s easy to forget that we were once an enemy of God threatening the testimony of God in our own life. We lived as if God wasn’t real, watching, or powerful. We […]