As It Ought To Be Cared For
I continue to love this theme of knowing God’s peace: well-ordered, pleasant, and righteous. His paths are best. His care for us is right, in whatever way it manifests. This morning, I read how Hannah Whitall Smith puts it: “Only God knows how to take care of things as they ought to be taken care […]
Oh, For Grace to Know This
I love when I arrive to Numbers 6:22-27 in my Bible reading. Here you find the blessing God gave to Aaron to speak over the people. It’s stunning: “The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you; the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace.“ So they will […]
Everything Conspiring
I’m reading Andrew Murray’s book, The Ministry of Intercession, and I find myself so inspired and renewed in my prayer life. I love how Murray sets up scenarios of very busy people who deeply want to pray but who find they somehow cannot. In one account, he writes, “It was as if everything conspired to […]
Well-Ordered
I’m reading about the attribute of God as Peace and Order in Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology. I find myself returning to the same paragraph over and over again. He writes, “God’s peace can be defined as follows: God’s peace means that in God’s being and in his actions he is separate from all confusion and […]
The First Word
Sometimes when I speak at retreats, I’ll ask people to call out the first word that comes to mind when they think about Jesus. I love this moment because we all learn so much about people, their stories, and what Jesus means to them. Shepherd! Savior! Love! Healer! Redeemer! I love seeing the glow on […]
Because of Him
I love this short clip of from Alistair Begg. Watch till the end and rejoice that you know the man on the middle cross. Nothing depends on you or me. Everything depends on Jesus.
“Everything Is Content”
When I recounted my recent travel trial to my friend, she encouraged me that “everything is content”—meaning everything God puts me through is a wonderful lesson that I might one day use in another book. The thought did feel comforting, especially as I considered the following verses: In 2 Corinthians 3:1-5, Paul talks about our […]
Made for This
This morning I read this sentence from Hannah Whitall Smith: “Our souls are of such a divine origin that no other joy but God can satisfy them.” Hannah Whitall Smith If we wonder why this or that thing still has not brought us the joy we know deep inside we are capable of, it’s because […]
Water Into Wine
This morning, I remembered the miracle in John 2 where Jesus turns water into wine. It’s perhaps one of the most well-known miracles as the first public demonstration of power after Jesus calls the first disciples. When I viewed this account in The Chosen, the whole scene really came to life for me, especially the […]
In the Moment
I’m learning to trust God moment by moment. This matters for someone who needs to know the future plans, the future solutions, and the future scenarios that might go wrong. God invites us to journey with Him and trust, moment by moment, when we’re not sure what’s happening next or if we can handle this […]