Dear Jesus cried out to His Father in acute honesty. Though His words feel accusatory, His actions spoke belief. Jesus was sure that His Father was still near enough to hear Him.
Category: Devotions
It takes 11,000 pounds of fuel per section to push a rocket off into space. To put it into perspective, that is two million times the rate at which fuel is burned in the average family car. I wonder, how much fuel does it take to push a child out into the world?
One day soon, God will again make a distinction between believers and unbelievers.
“Do you know how the clouds hang poised, those wonders of Him who has perfect knowledge?” (Job 37:16 NIV) I’ve spent the weekend in a friend’s home, therefore the view from my devotions has been different the last two mornings. Today, I entered my moments…
So often we get silence from God and we assume He’s left the premises. We interpret stillness as abandonment, when truly, He’s working behind the scenes. We must recall: abandonment is not a part of God’s nature.
So much of this year has been about learning to sit still in God’s company.
The rest of the country is caught up with Johnny Depp courtroom drama, but I can’t stop thinking about about the Son of God on the stand a couple thousand years ago. The testimony against Jesus was shaky at best; the witnesses couldn’t keep their stories straight and lied like veritable rugs to further their purposes.
We, too, try to rearrange the hands of God according to our own agenda. Where Jacob truly was aged and unsighted, our God is ageless and omniscient.
I have limited opportunity to take my trash to the curb. The garbage guys, God bless ’em, only come by once a week. If we fail to roll out the bin, we’re out of luck for seven more days. This is not the case with our God. He is always, endlessly ready to receive our trash! He’s waiting, with forgiveness in hand, happy to exchange our sin for righteousness. Isn’t that amazing?
Rest makes room for repentance. When one slows their soul to God’s speed, they suddenly become aware of all the ways they’ve fallen short. They have time and space to feel the angst in their frame and address the issue. Rest allows for repentance and repentance is the reset button; the presser is awarded another opportunity to live God’s way.