God’s plans are stone and concrete while mine are mere paper and paste.
Tag: eternal
Despite it’s inferior feeling, waiting is actually a powerful posture.
Men and women have been giving out of limited means from the beginning, but somehow with God, our little becomes just enough. He funds His earthly ministry through ordinary people just like us.
we are all Israelites, living out the wilderness between the slavery of sin and the promise of Heaven. It’s inconvenient and uncomfortable, but it’s a necessary journey. These desert steps cultivate the character we require to live in the Promised Land. And God has committed to accompany us all along the way.
Friends, we are just passing through. We don’t observe Sabbath and Jubilee years any longer, we’ve misplaced these incredible traditions of trust and grace. We must instead remind ourselves over and over again; this world is not our home. We are tenants and everything we have is only on loan for a little while. The sooner we learn this the less tightly we’ll hold to everything temporal: position, possessions, opinions and grudges.
What if we learned from the mistake of the Nazarenes and listened instead?
“The grass withers and the flowers fade, but our God’s word stands forever.” (Isaiah 40:8 MSG) Yesterday, my daughter and I took a trip to the botanical garden. We were waiting for the car to be serviced and the garden had been on her list…