Category: Reflections
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Our Daily Load
The troubles of the day are sufficient, even more so are its blessings! Blessings from the God who knows our needs before we ask.
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Bighearted Wisdom
Solomon’s wisdom was no doubt amazing. So amazing, the Scriptures tell us that people from every nation came to hear him. But this passage strikes me, as it gives reminder that he didn’t only have wisdom, but he also had a big heart.
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Shielded
The protection we have from God is more powerful, more thorough, more complete than we could ever imagine. The war we are in, the darts that are thrown at us: more ruthless, more cunning, more dangerous than we even realize.
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Guide Your Heart
We are so often told to follow our heart, and it can be very tempting to do so. But the Lord warns us, “the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked”.
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Rest
Life doesn’t often give us opportunity for rest. But Jesus offered it any time, all the time. It’s not just the “kick your feet up and relax” kind of rest, though that sure can be nice sometimes. But when life isn’t giving us that kind of rest, Jesus’ promise of rest still stands. Rest for…
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Striving
Some might consider a person who backs away from confrontation a coward. The Proverbs say he is worthy of honor. To back away may actually be the brave thing to do.
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Change
I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells.
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Like a Docile Lamb
Jeremiah had been given so much revelation by the Lord. We too, we have the entire Scripture; even more so, the veil taken away in Christ, the Holy Spirit to teach, and we glory in knowing the one true and living God.
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Called out of Darkness
We have been called out of darkness into His marvelous light. The darkness in us, completely overwhelmed and illuminated by the light of Christ. Yet a dimness remains. Seasons in the valley of the shadow of death. Dark times. Hard times.
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Weak Love
We are told to “love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our mind, with all our strength”. While this is super simple, it is extremely difficult. We are weak. Extremely weak. Yet that weak love, that is exactly what the Lord is asking for.