This season cannot last forever: that’s not how seasons work. Seasons change – even in South Texas. 🙂
Category: Devotions
Lent begins today and I’ve been asking God about what I might subtract in order to make room for more of Him.
Like the kings of ages past, we think we can improve upon God’s plan with our ingenuity and affluence. But really, everything beyond God’s good instruction will be torn down and burnt up.
Life is brief, difficult, slashed with loss and sorrow, but still, there are gifts to be counted.
“Anyone who listens to My teachings and follows it is wise, like a person who build on solid rock. Though the rain comes in torment and the flood waters rise and he winds beat against to have, it won’t collapse because it is built on…
The crowd will pick us up and carry us along the wide path unless we resist.
“But they are deeply guilty for their own strength is their god.” (Habakkuk 1:11 NLT) Self-trust is an idolatry in itself. When my deep inner leanings are propped up my own ability, intellect or problem-solving, I’m actually bowing at the altar of Anna instead of…