Numbers 14:3 “Why is the Lord bringing us to this land only to let us fall by the sword? Our wives and children will be taken as plunder. Wouldn’t it be better for us to go back to Egypt?” Oh my, I’m 30 years-old and not married. God must want me to be a Continue Reading…
Isaiah 55:8 “‘For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,’ declares the Lord. There are times when I just don’t get what God is doing. To paraphrase Shakespeare, my prayers seem to be “filled with sound and fury, signifying nothing.” I feel helpless in the face of injustices, Continue Reading…
Matthew 6:26 “Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?” The words “Becky, I don’t know where my purse is!” stopped me in my Continue Reading…
Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die….” I don’t always understand God’s timing, but sometimes I get a glimpse…. I received the call from my brother Marty that Dad had Continue Reading…
Numbers 14: “How long will these people treat me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in me….?” A great dialogue takes place in Numbers 13 and 14 between Joshua and Caleb and the other spies who are reporting to the people about the Promised Land they Continue Reading…
1 Chronicles 9:22 “The gatekeepers had been assigned to their positions of trust….” My daily Bible reading had taken me to Chronicles. I love reading the word of God, but I have to admit, I tend to fleet through the long lists of genealogies. However, nine and a half Continue Reading…
Isaiah 50:10-11 “Let him who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God. But now, all you who light fires and provide yourselves with flaming torches, go, walk in the light of your fires and of the torches Continue Reading…
Psalm 36:5 “Your love, O Lord, reaches to the heavens….” de·fault mech·a·nism: a term in computer science that refers to a system’s preset condition unless overridden by an operator. I think as humans, we have our own default mechanisms. From the alcoholic who gravitates to a drink to the Continue Reading…
Luke 21:14 “But make up your mind not to worry beforehand…” There are so many things we could worry about. Everything from what we’re going to wear to how we’ll pay the bills to concerns for our family, church and country qualifies as sources of worry. We can get to Continue Reading…
Job 13:15 “Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him.” I came across a billboard the other day that said, “Everything works out in the end. If it hasn’t worked out, it isn’t the end.” To be marked with the kind of tenaciousness that trusts God will, in Continue Reading…