Human love is emotional. Feelings dominate a human's love landscape. We feel as though we're in love, or we don't feel as though we're in love. Hormones, sleeplessness, wory, past hurts, Mexican food-...
He spent over three decades wading through the muck and mire of our sin yet still saw enough beauty in us to die for our mistakes.
Grief takes time. Give yourself some. Sages invest themselves in hurt and grieving (Eccles. 7:4 MSG ). Lament may be a foreign verb in our world but not in Scripture’s. Seventy percent of the psalms a...
Gratitude gets us through the hard stuff...Gratitude always leaves us looking at God and away from dread.
God saw your entire life from beginning to end, birth to hearse, and in spite of what he saw, he still dreams of having you by his side. Even with your faults and failures. Despite your muddles and mi...
God never promises to remove us from our struggles. He does promise, however, to change the way we look at them.
God never prefabs or mass-produces people. No slapdash shaping. I make all things new, he declares (Rev. 21:5 NKJV). He didn’t hand you your granddad’s bag or your aunt’s life; he personally and delib...
God loves you just the way you are, but he refuses to leave you that way. He wants you to be just like Jesus.
God is not going to let you see the distant scene either. So you might as well quit looking for it. He promises a lamp unto our feet, not a crystal ball into the future (Psalm 119:105). We do not need...
God intended for everyone to be able to read and understand his Word. The
Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don’t get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time com...
Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity. Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.
First thought of the morning, last worry of the night—your Goliath dominates your day and infiltrates your joy.
Everything you say and everything you do should all be done for Jesus your Lord. —COLOSSIANS 3:17
Don’t worry about skills you don’t have. Don’t covet strengths others do have. Just extract your uniqueness.
Does God guarantee the absence of struggle and the abundance of strength? Not in this life. But he does pledge to reweave your pain for a higher purpose.
DAY 12 God shows his great love for us in this way: Christ died for us while we were still sinners. ROMANS 5:8 NCV Can anything make me stop loving you? God asks. Watch me speak your language, sleep o...
Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.
Celebrate God’s goodness. Rejoice in the Lord always (v. 4). Ask God for help. Let your requests be made known to God (v. 6). Leave your concerns with him. With thanksgiving . . . (v. 6). Meditate on...
But here the correlation with Beauty and the Beast ends. In the fable, the beauty kisses the beast. In the Bible, the beauty does much more. He becomes the beast so the beast can become the beauty. Je...