Trials Teach True Tenderness
Without troubles, we easily wander away from God and slip into the illusion of self-sufficiency. But the difficulties of life sharpen our focus on God and heighten our sensitivity to His loving touch.
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What Kind of Builder are You?
The Size of your Ego limits the Size of your Service.
Don’t be Overcome, be an Overcomer.
Only our best is good enough
From Victim to Victor
The wronged are challenged to be more concerned about the spiritual state of the wrongdoers than the wrongs done. The mission of the injured is to rescue the injurers.
Lending to the Lord
It is easy to SPEAK of our belief in God and His goodness. But if we really do believe that He is trustworthy, then why do we find it so hard to give generously to those in need? God says He will repay us, do we believe Him or not?
Forgiveness is Conditional
Though God’s love is UNCONDITIONAL, God’s forgiveness is CONDITIONAL. His forgiveness only comes AFTER our confession.
To confess our sins means we see them as God sees them, we see ourselves in the mirror of His Word not the mirror of our pride.
We can’t see our sins until we accept what the Bible says about them, instead of what the world says about them:
We can’t come to God on our own terms!
Encounters with Jesus: The Taxers, the Taxed and the Taxa
The images on currency (money, coins) tell us who owns it. The titles on the currency tell the value assigned by the owner. Likewise, our ownership and value are determined by whose image and title is on us. Sin removes God’s image and title from us and replaces it with the world’s title and valuation. But Salvation through Jesus Christ re-imprints God’s image on our lives and we are re-titled as Sons.
Encounters with Jesus: Bad News
It is NOT comfort, ease of life, safety, or even health that separates the righteous from the rebellious. The only thing that separates the saved from the unsaved is REPENTANCE.
Work-Wrought Worship
The focus of a Christian’s work, in the Kingdom of God, is to enable the Worship of God… everything a Christian does, each facet of our lives, every fiber of our being must be focused on delivering, to the people around us, the truth of salvation through the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ.
Reflections in Nehemiah: Not Everyone Is Going to Heaven
Those who have no use for God before death will have no use for Him after death. If Heaven isn’t real for you now, it DEFINITELY won’t be ‘real’ for you when you die.
Reflections in Nehemiah: The Butler Did It!
Scholarship and other human accomplishments are not what qualify us for joining God’s workforce. God looks for devotion over degrees, desire over duty, enthusiasm over experience, fellowship over fame, and connection (to Him) over ‘connections’.
God used a butler
To build a city wall;
He can use you too,
If you answer His call.
Reflections in The WORD 