If I had to choose one word to describe our world the past year it would be “fear.” Fear has been used as a tool to control the emotions, decisions, and actions of billions of people, most certainly the 330 million who live in the United States. Can I tell you something? I’ve not had …
Category: Devotions
Beat A Path To God
Have you ever looked at someone else’s spiritual life and envied it? Or read about someone in the Bible and wondered how they arrived at such a place of knowing God and experiencing Him in such personal ways? I’ve been there. One friend had an amazing ability to pray back God’s Word to Him. Anytime …
Under His Wings
I love how the created world reflects God’s character and His relationship with His creation. There is one picture of God that is repeated several times in Psalms that is a vivid illustration of His care and concern for us. It is the idea of finding refuge under His wings. Psalm 17:8 – Keep me …
God Sees
Despite the fact that Job likely lived in the time of the patriarchs, I don’t think it’s a coincidence that his story appears in the Bible right before the book of Psalms. Chuck Swindoll gives us some good reasons to believe that Job lived around the time of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (source here). Chronologically, …
Will We Come Out As Gold?
I have made it into the book of Job on my “read-through-the-Bible-in-180-days” journey. I have always found this book to be a little hard to understand and have learned by experience that you can’t really have many takeaways until you get to the end of the story and get God’s perspective on all that has …
