As I watch others’ behavior and evaluate whether they’ve done well or not, I need to work at balance by finding all that is good. The negative comes easily. I can do this especially by putting a positive spin on their actions and finding a word from the following list to bestow on them. This […]
I’ve had a few friends who have been unable to find peace due to a constant focus on the situation of their grandchildren. Mind you, they’ve done all that they can do. One even called child protective services only to have them find insufficient evidence of a problem. That, of course, wound up costing the […]
I need to take heed to myself, get the beam out of my eye, see the other as supremely important and find ways to encourage and build them. Which do I focus on more: what I want God to do for me/what God has already done for me? My brain is naturally wired to be […]
If you put on a good show of being religious and do not control your tongue (including it’s tonal content) you fake yourself out and your heart is deceived. He who controls his tongue and uses it to build up the brethren is mightier that he who conquers a city. James 1:6 This blog is […]
Elijah was used by God to call down fire from heaven and defeat the slave-priests of Baal, but then he burned out whining that he was the only one left and might as well die. Works? Then God leads him off to sleep eat and hang out in a cave for a while. Climb off […]
How cool is that? In Romans 7 Paul laments that he keeps doing what he knows he shouldn’t and doesn’t really want to do them. Then he doesn’t get around to doing what he knows he should and really wants to but the sin in him keeps bossing him around. I can relate. Paul calls […]
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of all wisdom: the fear of the Lord is to hate evil: in order to hate evil I need to see the consequences of my choices. The greatest evil is iniquity ie. I will be my own god by deciding right and wrong, doing this “right” in […]
My brain sometimes feels that I will protect myself from further hurt by circling round and round on the details of past hurt. Once I accept that I am powerless and can’t change something, having obeyed and done the little that I can with God’s help; then I need to cast all my care on […]
James 3:8-12 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren , these things ought not so […]
Caring, godly people hit bottom and burn out sooner or later. I always have admired my dad for his faithful following of the Lord and service to the kingdom. He shared with me that there was a time when he felt burned out but kept walking with God and pulled through. A while back, I […]
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