Respect the sacrifice. The giving of a life for a life. Seek wisdom in the displays of a greater love than self. To fully understand the depths of sacrificing for others, start with Jesus. It is where love, dying to self, giving everything for providing, protecting, and saving something and someone for freedom’s sake is […]
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When we look back over the joys, sorrows, and hardships of life, one lesson we learn is that God carries us through it all. Holy does it over and over because he cares and loves us. That love translates to everything. Even in our unwillingness to listen, failures, turning away from, or not spending time
The biblical meaning of pattern is to imitate a behavior over and over. It’s a set way of operating and establishing an attitude of repetition. What pattern does your life repeat? Are there patterns of this world that draw you in? Dabbling with God on Sunday mornings and dabbling in worldly views during the rest
Do you feel shaken, a yearning for order, and seek a simpler life that’s not happening fast enough? Hold on, Holy is working on your behalf. Stay focused and attentive on Jesus, the one who has your back. Do not get distracted by worldly endeavors. Instead, stay engaged in day to day life with hope
When we move from placing our focus and attention on career, money, the latest iPhone, and a home to compete with the elite to the simpler kind of living, we appreciate the shedding of unnecessary burdens. What comes to mind when you ponder a simpler life with smaller burdens? God is bigger than anything going
Seek holiness in everything you do and say. When you seek holiness, God shows up in a big way. Are you seeking God with every inch of your life? Today and every day is the day to focus on the ways of God to live out your life.
Humanity has the skewed idea that righteous opinions somehow denote being on God’s side. God’s biblical meaning of judgment is justice, defending the defenseless and fairness, not condenmation. God’s ways examine postures of each heart. Human tendency is to punish, shame, point fingers, and shunning sinners. At the heart of every matter, God seeks to
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I love how God starts conversations with us through nature, animals, forests, and even other people. Sometimes, it’s a nuance of sound from a bird or a line from a song. Other times, it’s the big bold mountain grandeur that takes our breath away or the breeze rustling through forest that creates goosebumps and a
What have you learned so far in life? Are your hurts, disappointments, or feelings of injustice reflective of others, yourself, or God? If you wallow in the dirt of angry bitterness, you will stay there and never rise from the lesson you were meant to learn. You will begin to see the ugliness as a
God’s timing and human timing are not the same. To understand this is to acquire Jesus’ patient endurance in the waiting. What are you waiting for in life? Inflation to give way to easier affordability, better roads to travel, or career promotion? These are only human luxuries that we have no real control over for
