Ignoring what they said, Jesus told the synagogue ruler,“Don’t be afraid; just believe.” Mark 5:36 NIV
Imagine if you will…
Jesus crosses the lake and brings his boat ashore.
A crowd gathers instantly.
News of a dying child.
Jesus immediately goes to see [...]
There’s a big part of me that cannot believe that the religious people of the day had the gal to not only not believe who Jesus was, but to demand he show them a sign from heaven. They were asking him to put on a show, so they could catch him in a lie, assuming Jesus would jump at the chance to show off his mad-skills.
What I’m realizing is that if we listened what God spoke to us in a whisper or in an earthquake. If we listened and obeyed, followed his instructions for our lives there would be a lot less pain – no, not no pain, but less pain.
I only have one little problem with the scripture above. I could follow it, I think, if it weren’t for that one little word.
Do we love the people God loves? The ones who make us crazy, the ones no one else loves. God says, without love, none of our works mean anything.
Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar; so she said to Abram, “The LORD has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family through her.” Genesis 16:1-2 NIV
A group of us [...]
Sometimes God talks to me as I talk to others… I’m always the one who learns something.
if Satan can whisper in our ear…make us think we are unworthy…our choices have been so blown…our sin was too big…our mistakes TOO bad…if he can keep us weighed down with that defeat …then what?… we are NOT JOYFUL and he gets to do a little dance of victory…
Will you choose the road of rocks and twists and turns, the way that leads to destruction; or will you choose the path that has been laid before you, the path made straight by God himself.
We spend SO. MUCH. TIME. trying to figure out the end of the world that we fail to recognize today and all the possibilities it has. We’re so worried about the world ending that we forget to live, forget to laugh, forget to love.
