Posts from 2022 (Page 8)

Eternity In Their Hearts He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He puts eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning. Ecclesiastes 3:11 In every age, culture, religion, and nation, people have an innate awareness that life transcends what they can see, taste, feel, and smell. All of them know a supernatural world exists, tough they may pursue it in different ways. People may try to define the…

Que, Sera, Sera That which has been is what will be, that which is done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun. Ecclesiastes 1:9 Solomon shrewdly observed the way life works, and he never sugarcoated reality. In this verse, Solomon seems to be saying that we have to accept things the way they are because few things ever change, but he’s also acknowledging the value of constancy in our universe and in our daily…

The Key To Pleasing God Without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. Hebrews 1:6 In the book of Genesis, we read about the life of Enoch, a man who walked with God so closely that God plucked him out of this life and into heaven instead of bothering with the normal transition of death(Genesis 5:23-24). The…

No Doubt Allowed Let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. James 1:6 James had described the challenge and the benefits of trusting God during difficult times. Problems test our faith, he explained, and in the crucible of struggle, we develop the quality of endurance(James 1:2-3). As we continue to trust God in hard times, we grow up spiritually, and our faith matures…

God Never Sleeps Behold, He who keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. Psalm 121:4 Many people outside the church look at us and criticize us for being “plastic” or “phony.” They say we give glib answers to difficult questions, or worse, we don’t even ask the questions in the first place! The writers of the Bible though, were never criticized for this problem because they were so painfully honest.in fact, people who study ancient literature say the Bible is…

Broken To Bless Make me hear joy and gladness be satisfied;Let the bones which You have broken rejoice. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation And sustain me with a willing spirit. Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, And sinners shall be converted and return to You. Psalm 51: 8, 12-13 Author Henri Nouwen said that only those who are “wounded healers” have the credibility and compassion to enter into another person’s pain and provide genuine comfort. King…

Patience As an example, brothers and sisters, of suffering and patience, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord [as His messengers and representatives]. You know we call those blessed [happy, spiritually prosperous, favored by God] who were steadfast endured [difficult circumstances]. You have heard of the endurance of Job and you have seen the Lord’s outcome [how He richly blessed Job]. The Lord is full of compassion and is merciful. James 5:10-11 We want the character…

Bringing Comfort Blessed [gratefully praised and adored] be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort, who comforts encourages us in every trouble so that we will be able to comfort encourage those who are in any kind of trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 2 Corinthians 1:3,4 Nobody likes pain. We naturally wonder, Where is God when it hurts? and Why is…

Strength In Weakness I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong. 2 Corinthians 12:10 Many years ago, a man was arrested in the Soviet Union. After a sham trial, he was sentenced to twenty years of hard labor in the Siberian gulag. Seven days a week and fourteen hours a day, he worked in fierce cold in winter and swarms of ravenous insects…

More Than Conquerors Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril or sword?……Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. Romans 8:35,37 Our interpretations of difficulties determines our response to them. If we believe we deserve that God give us a smooth, relatively pain-free life, always on the upward path of greater success, we’ll be devastated (and shocked) when we…