Life is made up of seasons. There is never a time when we don’t need wisdom at all, but I can remember a time in my life when I needed the wisdom of God every single day – the season of raising children! Parenting is hard work. There’s very little “on-the-job” training unless you’ve been …
Tag: Discipline
Have You Been To The Threshing Floor?
In 1 Chronicles 21:1-22:1, we read that David was tempted by Satan to require a census to be taken of the people of Israel. This displeased God. He disciplined David by sending an angel of death, and 70,000 died. When David repented and confessed his sin, he sought out a place to make a sacrifice …
Get Out Of God’s Way
There’s an interesting story in 2 Samuel 24. It occurs toward the end of David’s life, a time when you think he would be long past making foolish decisions, after experiencing a lifetime of God’s mercy and faithfulness. While David is a “man after God’s own heart” (1 Samuel 13:14), he still had to navigate …
When The Crisis Comes
My reading the past week has been the book of Isaiah, which is quite a long book. It contains prophecies against the nations that surround Israel, and threaten her well-being, all written in poetry and prose by the prophet Isaiah. There are also some chapters of historic details which tie back into the records of …
Have You Been Pruned Lately?
In John 15, Jesus gives us the secrets of a fruit-bearing life and warns His disciples of the dangers of an unfruitful life. First, the fruit-bearing POSITION is to abide in Christ, as without Him, we cannot produce anything resembling fruit that pleases God. Second, the PURPOSE of fruit-bearing is two-fold: it glorifies God, and …
The Way Of The Word 