However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts. — John Calvin, Commentary, Ephesians 3:21
Monthly Archives: March 2017
Restless Hearts
Psalm 139 (AMP) O Lord, you have searched me [thoroughly] and have known me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up [my entire life, everything I do]; You understand my thought from afar. You scrutinize my path and my lying down, And You are intimately acquainted with all my ways. EvenContinue reading “Restless Hearts”
His Love Can Never Fail
I do not ask to see the way My feet will have to tread; But only that my soul may feed Upon the living Bread. ’Tis better far that I should walk By faith close to His side; I may not know the way I go, But oh, I know my Guide. Refrain His loveContinue reading “His Love Can Never Fail”
God Likes Us
We must understand that God does not “love” us without liking us – through gritted teeth – as “Christian” love is sometimes thought to do. Rather, out of the eternal freshness of his perpetually self-renewed being, the heavenly Father cherishes the earth and each human being upon it. The fondness, the endearment, the unstintingly affectionateContinue reading “God Likes Us”
FAITH
“I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.” – Martin Luther
Make the Most of your Minutes
Today, see that you live with honor, purpose, and courage; Resisting disturbances and interruptions. Make most of your minutes, wisely recognizing and taking each opportunity because the hours are filled with distractions (Eph 5 JEV) Bible time management courage purpose focus Ephesians 5:15-16
Waiting
Lamentations 3:25 ESV The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
Courage
Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it. -Matthew 10:39 Take the case of courage. No quality has ever so much addled the brains and tangled the definitions of merely rational sages. Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire toContinue reading “Courage”
Follow the Shepherd
Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led. But it does mean loving and knowing the One who is leading. – Oswald Chambers
Take it back
“The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.”Proverbs 21:5 ESV http://bible.com/59/pro.21.5.esv