Just what does a really healthy person experience in regards to delighting in their God-given design and the life He has given them? When I discharge people from the day hospital, I sometimes tell them that my goal for them is that, in a couple of years, they might wake up, sit on the edge […]
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Do you struggle with low energy and secretly envy others with abundant ability to serve God, feeling that you are not as important, as pleasing to the Lord. A missionary had been raised in the mission field, was bilingual, and felt that her mission field was in the country where she was raised. She was […]
At every point in life, I can find grace from God to do the right thing or go my own way and do the wrong. There is no choice to go my own way and do the right. Going my own way is the sin of iniquity, the worst sin of all. If I do […]
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IT’S ALL MY FAULT
Whenever I do couples therapy, neither one wants to examine themselves. “Fix the other and I’ll be OK!” They wallow in the universal delusion that looking good is more important that being good. I used to run around being terrified by the delusion that, if I admit the reality that “I am the chief of sinners”, […]
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The Grain of Mustard Seed Faith
When Jesus was being abandoned by the big crowds and the wishy-washy followers, he turned to Peter and asked if he was going to abandon him also. Peter replied, “Whom else can I go to? Only you have the words of life” John 6:68. This is the grain, the tiny-but sufficient-grain, of mustard seed. When […]
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Angry with God? You sure?
Did you know that God likes it when we are angry with him? For I wish that you were either hot or cold, but you are lukewarm, so I will vomit you out of my mouth. Read Jeremiah 20. Even Jonah was mad at God for not obliterating his enemies. God still listened and talked […]
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HOW MUCH CAN A PERSON TAKE?
A fellow traveler in this valley of pain writes: “They say God knew everything about us before we were born; how our life was going to go; what we were going to have to go through, that’s what God knew.. Why is it that, when our plates are already full and overflowing there is always […]
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Heave Your Heavy Burdens On Him
He really does care for you. Let’s consider our tendency to grab each piece of life and turn it into a burden that crushes. How? By taking responsibility onto myself to figure it all out, fix it in my own strength, decide what is best, and worry how the result will make me look and […]
Reader comment:”Something else that I think about continually struggle with is, proof of, do I have salvation? I often struggle with “am I saved?? What if I’m not?” It drives me crazy?” I believe that the very struggle is evidence of authentic salvation (because it’s evidence of the Spirit living in me). If I […]
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HE LOVES ME IN THE LITTLE DETAILS
The truth: if I am faithful in small things then God will entrust to me the great riches, has one meaning but many applications: The Lord has been talking to me about noticing and appreciating and benefiting from the “little things” he does for me, being faithful to appreciate the little evidences of his love. […]
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