Recently I’ve run into people who are listening to the devil’s lie that we will sit around on clouds playing harps for all eternity. They are rightly pained at the thought of having to tolerate eternal boredom. Be assured that the afterlife for believers will be full of creativity, wonder, relationships, ruling and reigning, etc. […]
The problem with God’s ways is not that they are difficult but that they are intended to be IMPOSSIBLE. For without the Holy Spirit you can do NOTHING! When we read his Word, we see apparently opposite commands and ask, ” Well, which is it, this or that?” Then he replys, “Exactly!” So it often […]
One of the greatest evidences of being a mature individual is choosing to do what is right even when other people feel they are the ones making you; even when they take credit for what you do. Still, we need to learn to do what is right just because it is right and leave the […]
(Don’t try these yourself at home. Do let the Holy Spirit enable you to do these, and you will “ACT WACKED!” TURN the other cheek! Matthew 5:39 Immediately CHOOSE to walk the second mile! Matthew 5:41 SING when thrown into prison and beaten illegally! Acts 16:25 SAY THANKS: IN all things!! Philippians 4:6, 1 Thessalonians […]
Melt down a bowl of snow and look for the white pigment in it. Not a speck is there. So what makes it so blindingly white that the Bible uses it as a metaphor that we should be whiter than? Look at snow in a bowl inside a totally dark room. Quick, or it will […]
In C. S. Lewis’ novel, two boys struggle through adventures. One wonders aloud why Aslan (A type of Christ) doesn’t show up and fix everything. His friend, wisely, says, “You know, he is not a tame lion.” If we can’t turn God into a tame lion, we wouldn’t mind a gene in a bottle. Rub […]
We take our healthy and normal anxiety and blow it out of proportion by saying: When will this ever end? What if this happens or that does not happen? This is so unfair! I could try, but it would not work! Poor me, this is so unfair! No one really cares! etc. etc. In Philippians […]
Expectations are just a fancy, nice-sounding synonym for “My rights!” I have found an invariable rule: (If I have anger that I can’t cast on Jesus, then my rights have been trampled, and what I “reasonably” expect has not been forthcoming.) I suggest that rights and expectations make no sense for a pardoned, cleansed, adopted, […]
It is almost humorous how people, who do not want to examine themselves, do not want to get right with God, and do not want to continue to grow, accuse us of thinking we are holier than they. In fact, if they see us living in a more godly way, it is because of our […]
Jesus was so much more than anything that we can imagine or desire. One thing that he is and longs to fulfill his role in our lives is that he was The Way. Jesus said, I am the Way the Truth, and the Life! John 14:6 You can’t come to the Father except through Me!” […]
