Posts Tagged "provision"

  Four minutes in, I discovered the truth: small children are terrible at picking strawberries. There we were, two families with kids and a single guy, exploring a “U-Pick” strawberry patch on a sunny Sunday afternoon.  The air was cool and dry and the sky was clear with a bright sun overhead, streaming down on fields of ripe, red, ready-to-eat strawberries just waiting to be picked. Then there they went, the two-year-old and the six-year-old, ready to try their hand at field work and eager to fill their buckets with the juicy delights of (almost) spring. The older one did great.  Her six-year-old eyes quickly distinguished the good fruit from the bad, and her nimble fingers had no trouble separating stem from stalk.  The younger one…...

We live in a world that tells us to compare. Compare ourselves with our friends.  Compare ourselves with what we see on TV and in the movies.  Compare ourselves with “statistics” to find out whether we’re “normal” or not. But that’s not the path to freedom, and that’s not the way of Jesus. “Not that we dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who are commending themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding…”Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.” -2 Corinthians 10:12, 17 There may be a thousand things in this world that we don’t have, but God has promised His children a glorious gift...

Ever feel like you’re all alone, like no one understands or agrees with you in your faith? At the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.” -Romans 11:5 All throughout Scripture runs a thread of the loneliness of God’s people in a world turned against Him.  Elijah the prophet felt it. David the king felt it.  Jesus the Christ felt it. In those moments that you feel it, remember the promise God still gives to His people. “There are others. You are not alone.” It may look like you’re alone. It may feel like it. Do not believe it! Believe God, not your circumstances, and know that He will bring the people you need at just the right time. He is trustworthy, because the reason He’ll bring them is the same reason...

“We were counting on Egypt to protect us from Assyria…” Over and over again the the Scriptures, we find this theme of people relying on something other than God, only to have it fail. Most often, that object of reliance is simply another person or group. How easy it is to do this; to see with natural eyes and rely on them, rather than trusting the supernatural call to look to God and rely on Him! How quickly we rush to someone close at hand who seems to have our answer and meet our bees, only to find emptiness on the other side. Remember this, walk in it and find hope: “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.” -Proverbs...

"Be at peace, O my soul, with the blessings the Lord HAS given you, and do not fret about the ones He hasn't yet..."