Disentangle from the daily and re-anchor in the Divine.
I looked about the cabin, concerned that everyone else aboard the flight was beholding the beauty just beyond our wings. Sadly, the passengers about buried in books or devices, adrift with sleeping masks and shuttered windows, oblivious to the glory show were uniquely privy to. I turned back to the clouds, unwilling to let it go unseen.
The place we allow pain to take us makes an impact on eternity.
“But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with the others, because he was afraid that harm might come to them.” (Genesis 42:4 NIV) I took my kids to the airport this morning. They aren’t little people any longer, and the phrase ‘mid-size people’ seems…
This morning’s cold plunge into the Psalms stated it concisely. “But my God is king.”
I felt the Spirit invite me to take off my spiritual rain jacket…
“When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she became jealous of her sister.” (Genesis 30:1 NIV) From the inception of their respective marriages, Rachel and Leah battled one another. Quite likely, their challenges predated the arrival of the handsome cousin, sibling…
The rocky pillow where Jacob placed his head turned out to be the hidden doorstep of heaven.
“After Jesus was born in Bethlehem…” (Matthew 2:1 NIV) In the race to get it all done, we wind up viewing Christmas as a finish line, but for Joseph and Mary and Jesus, their story was just beginning. They woke up on the morning after…
We are quick to recommend stuff, but how readily we share the best best gift we’ve ever received?
“Our Salvation is nearer now than we first believed.” (Romans 13:11 NIV) I’ve often heard this text in terms of rapture and appropriately so. It’s nestled in verses about the late hour and our limited opportunity to identify with Savior. Fiery preaching presents the end…