Here’s something I found written in the margins of my bible today that I thought was interesting: Faith isn’t like a vending machine (one coin in, one treat out), but is more like farming (lots of resources committed habitually over time with a greater harvest).
02.18Delight
“Delight yourself in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart.” [Psalm 37:4] When our hope is found solely in God, we can be guarenteed satisfaction. It’s not that He provides every desire of our fickle hearts. It’s that the desire of our hearts becomes constantly turned towards Him. Everything else [...]
07.11A Matter of Calling
Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle… to the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together… by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. – 1 Corinthians 1:1-2, 9 These introductory verses to Paul’s [...]
07.03Thoughts on Psalm 5
Lead me, O LORD, in your righteousness because of my enemies; Make your way straight before me. Psalm 5:8 We should always have some people that call themselves enemies. God never called us to be liked by everyone. He called us to be righteous. Sometimes those two don’t mix. Unfortunately, we usually fall to one [...]
07.01Thoughts On Psalm 4
There are those who say, who will show us some good? Lift up the light of your face upon us, oh LORD! You have put joy in my heart more than when their grain and wine abound. In peace I will both lie down and sleep; For you alone, O LORD, make me dwell in [...]
“Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it… how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation?”. Hebrews 2:1, 3 I’m reading through the book of Hebrews and one theme that keeps coming up is the role of the gospel in a believer’s [...]
Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. 35For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, [...]
04.08More Than Enough
And they all ate and were satisfied. And they took up twelve baskets full of the broken pieces left over. John 14:20 ESV This verse stuck out to me this week when I realized a seemingly obvious truth: there were leftovers for a reason. God doesn’t make mistakes. Jesus didn’t miscalculate the need when He [...]
02.19iMemorization
I’m pretty lousy when it comes to memorizing scripture. I just don’t have a good habit for doing it. The desire is there, but the mechanics are not. In college, I would carry around a 3×5 with a verse for the week on it. Whenever I had time between classes (or needed to stay awake [...]
02.07Repost: God > Money
I like to revisit old posts because I love myself because it gives me a sense of where I’ve been over the last year. One year ago I wrote this: So, I used my drive to men’s bible study this morning to get some prayer off my chest–something I’m trying to be more consistent with. [...]