“I have hidden Your Word in my heart”. In difficult times, when we have read our Bibles, we can fall back on His truth, His promises and what we know about His character. Verses like Phil 4:6-9 can shape and protect our hearts and minds and prevent us from going to the dark places. We need to intentionally choose to trust in His Word. It is living, active, inerrant, infallible, authoritative and true. As A W Tozer once said “We can’t expect those without faith to understand the power of the Word because it is through faith that the Word is revealed”. The Bible tells us about Jesus, and reveals the character of God so that we can know that He is good and faithful. Therefore, Let the Word of Christ dwell richly in you.
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
A new beginning
I started a new book today, Big God by Britt Merrick. He wrote this book during a time when his 5 year old daughter was struggling with cancer. She went into remission but the cancer came back and eventually took her life. I watched this family, from a far, as they went through this time in the valley of the shadow of death and found my faith strengthen by their living testimonies. I hope to share little tid-bits along the way. . . and so we begin.
“I have hidden Your Word in my heart”. In difficult times, when we have read our Bibles, we can fall back on His truth, His promises and what we know about His character. Verses like Phil 4:6-9 can shape and protect our hearts and minds and prevent us from going to the dark places. We need to intentionally choose to trust in His Word. It is living, active, inerrant, infallible, authoritative and true. As A W Tozer once said “We can’t expect those without faith to understand the power of the Word because it is through faith that the Word is revealed”. The Bible tells us about Jesus, and reveals the character of God so that we can know that He is good and faithful. Therefore, Let the Word of Christ dwell richly in you.
“I have hidden Your Word in my heart”. In difficult times, when we have read our Bibles, we can fall back on His truth, His promises and what we know about His character. Verses like Phil 4:6-9 can shape and protect our hearts and minds and prevent us from going to the dark places. We need to intentionally choose to trust in His Word. It is living, active, inerrant, infallible, authoritative and true. As A W Tozer once said “We can’t expect those without faith to understand the power of the Word because it is through faith that the Word is revealed”. The Bible tells us about Jesus, and reveals the character of God so that we can know that He is good and faithful. Therefore, Let the Word of Christ dwell richly in you.
Monday, October 5, 2015
The starfish story
As I started
my quiet time this morning I thought about how easily I am distracted (by the cares
of life and puppy dogs wanting in and wanting out) and my prayer was that I
would keep my focus on Jesus.
In my reading I
was impressed by a line – that the same God who cares for everyone without
exception, loves each individual with an exceptional love.
Because we
are the recipients of this exceptional love, it frees us to love others. The author makes a distinction between
actions done in love and activism. Where
an activist may want to heal, restore, redeem or re-create, those acting out of
love point through their actions to the healing, restoring, redeeming and
re-creating presence of God.
As I
mused on this I thought of the starfish story. Sometimes we see all these starfish, the distractions
and cares of life that seem so overwhelming that we miss that one we are to
minister too, that one whose life we can touch with a word of healing or a
smile of affirmation. Nothing we do out
of love for Him will ever go unnoticed.
It’s not our responsibility to clear the beach, just be there for the
one (or ones) He has placed in our life.
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