Many people will confess that they are troubled and restless deep within their spirit. Others refuse to talk about the emptiness they feel inside as if by ignoring it, it will go away. Yet there is an infinitely positive side to our restlessness. It can become the spark and the drive that moves us to... Continue Reading →
Wisdom of the Number
On the highway between where a certain family lived and where they traveled to each holiday season to visit their relatives, was an off-ramp with only the number 666 written on the sign. The family had heard that this is the number of the devil and sometimes this gave them a fleeting reminder or an... Continue Reading →
The Mark
When they brought the baby back it had a tag on its arm. Mommy was still weak from the delivery and very tired. But she had a similar band and the code written on the baby was to make sure that this mother would leave the hospital with the right baby. In a day and... Continue Reading →
Believe Jesus Is Near
The Christian person is a remarkable being. We stand to be judged by all those around us because we have chosen to place our hope in God. We have chosen to look to Christ even though nobody around us may see why we trust Him over ourselves. We purposely place ourselves in the awkward situation... Continue Reading →
Rising Anticipation
While our world grows crazier all the time, while people scurry frantically after everything but God, let us lift our eyes. When we can fix our hearts on the Lord above, then perhaps all this madness can begin to take on a different sort of significance. We can mount up in hope. When we see... Continue Reading →
Be Like Jesus
When our hearts become so filled with our love for Jesus, His love will move us. We will be in Him and He will be in us! We will be in the Father as Christ is in the Father. The Father is love, so love will be ours. There will be care without limit to... Continue Reading →
A Psalm for Today
People come to religion for many reasons. But when a person comes to God with the intention of knowing Him personally, something special happens. All of a sudden, religion is not a standard of living. Our going to church changes from its former social notions because something magical happens. A finite and mortal being meets... Continue Reading →
Hear
If anyone has an ear, let him hear. Revelation 13:9 WEB Walking through a campground late one night, a couple was talking quietly to each other. Suddenly the young man stopped. His young girlfriend did not know exactly why so she merely edged in closer to his side. He stood for a moment... Continue Reading →
What We Worship
All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed. Revelation 13:8 WEB In some countries, there is a little booklet that is given to a couple when they get... Continue Reading →
No Half-Hearted
Oh, so many times we turn to God, but when we do, we only turn half of our desire or our heart to Him. We keep for ourselves half a heart that is only looking out for itself. This is easy to detect if we truly want to see it. But it is next to... Continue Reading →
