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Born In the Likeness of Men
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Christ has come! The glorious Son of God has been born as one of us. He adopted our frailty and weakness. He emptied himself to become one with us, and he knows our frame, that we are made of mere dust. He was tempted like we are, yet without any sin. Temptation pushed him to the limits, yet he did not yield for even a moment. He is the great God who became man.
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The Kingdom Is Received With Childlike Faith
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Jesus wasn't saying that you will get the kingdom if you are sweet enough, joyful enough, or innocent enough. He wasn't preaching works-based righteousness in any way. Instead, Jesus was making a comparison. Some people receive the kingdom. They receive it because they receive things like children receive things. The keyword is "receive." How do children receive things?
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Faith Is the Way to God
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Abel was the son of Adam and Eve and brother to Cain. We don't know much about these two men, but we do know they both offered a sacrifice to God. Perhaps God had instructed them to do so. Perhaps their parents had taught them the need for sacrifice. Whatever their reason for sacrificing to God, Genesis tells us their sacrifices were somehow different.
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Release Yourself From the Pressure To Be Expert
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I have been thinking quite a bit lately about the childlike faith Christ loves and desires (Mark 10:15). That faith is one of pure trust.
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Not Over. Not Around. God Takes You Through
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Have you ever felt there is no logical way forward? God’s way, according to the Psalm, was through the sea. Through it. Not over it, as in a boating adventure. Not around it, as in a hiking adventure. But through it. No one’s way is ever through it, except God’s. Only He can take us through the thing, through the Red Sea, through that which we are unable, in our human nature, to go through. But with God there is a way forward.
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The Humble Do Victory Well
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How we respond to the victory God gives is important. He is looking for humility and dependence, so we must react to the good times accordingly.
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Has the Word Tested You? It Tested Joseph
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Dreams. Ugh. I’m sick of them. Why did I have them? It has been years since they came. I know, or at least I knew, they were different from normal dreams. They were divine. Two of them, similar in nature, came to me. I was only seventeen at the time. I was the youngest of my father’s many sons, yet favored by him. He so loved my mother. But why those dreams?
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The Unfortunate and Ugly Move From Spirit to Flesh
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The Lord wants to move his people forward, upward, onward. He has a plan for each one of you. Recently, I've seen this in a fresh way in my own life. The fruit of the Spirit is love -- and there are many outworkings of that love. I believe the Spirit wants to produce heightened joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control in me. And in you. He wants to move us forward, to take us further into the work and fruit of his Spirit.
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Your Teenager Can Help You Destroy Hypocrisy
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When a child grows into adolescence, they begin seeing their parents in a new light. During their younger years, mom or dad was right and true, a source of illumination in a dark world. But, as the teenage years kick in, children begin to discover the world on their own.
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God, the River of Delight
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The psalmist sang of God’s river of delights, for he has joys he wishes to gift to his children. Each one flows from him— he is the source of all the little gladnesses of life. Each joy is best experienced in the light of him. But, I wonder, how often do I fail to recognize the delights he sends? How many joys do I regularly fail to praise him for?
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