MY HOPE Why should I cherish in my heart a hope that devours me – the hope for perfect happiness in this life – when such hope, doomed to frustration, is nothing by despair. My hope is in what the hand of man has never touched. Do not let me trust what I can grasp […]
THE POWER PLANT AND THE LIGHT BULB There is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live. -1 Cor. 8:6 This is a great mystery that we accept by faith, […]
MISGUIDED PRAYER I prayed this morning for all the lives that are closely attached to my life – a wife, two sons and their wives, three grandchildren, a brother and sister and their spouses. Then a great check came into my soul from the Holy Spirit, and this thought came into my mind: “That is […]
PRAY AT EVERY TURN A couple of weeks ago, during my morning worship time, I prayed, “Holy Spirit, guide me to follow Jesus more closely today than I did yesterday. Let not a day go by without close fellowship with Him.” Within my spirit, however it happens, I heard, “Then pray at every turn.”
LIFE Life abounds around me in this world. The people I meet. The dogs I pet. The trees that blow in the wind. But You are my life, Lord. I do nothing without You.
WHO DOES WHAT? Yesterday morning, before the fireplace downstairs, I was lamenting how hard it is to stay close to Jesus throughout each day. “What is my part in all this, Lord, and what is Yours?” I emptied my consciousness of all thoughts of my own as I stared into the flames…until these words arrived […]
CREATION CONTINUING ON Yesterday was a miracle – the birth of little Grayson Day, our newest grandchild. I think, “How can anyone watching a birth doubt the existence of God?” Everything about a new baby points directly to the finger of God, who continues His creation baby by baby. The complexity of it all, the […]
WHAT DOES GOD WANT OF ME? If I pray so many hours a day or read so many pages of Scripture, will God be pleased with me? I think not. Such standards are not even scriptural. I believe He doesn’t want what I do or say as much as He wants me to trust Him […]
HUMILITY She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. – Luke 2:7 The trappings of this world had no room for Jesus, so He was born in humble surroundings, of humble parents, and worshipped by humble shepherds. Should we not also worship […]
BAD MEDICINE Bad Medicine is a spring-fed lake located in northern Minnesota, about 150 miles from the Canadian border. It’s so named because early Native Americans in the area thought a lake with no outlet was a place of bad medicine and would neither hunt nor fish near it. It’s like that with our souls. […]