Psalm 33 is full of joy and promise, and verse 12 is the pivotal statement: Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; the people whom He has chosen as His heritage! God’s favor rests on His people. God delivers His own from famine, and our souls from death. The people that God has […]
Salvation always includes calling, and in different times and places and seasons the works God has prepared for us may play to our natural strengths, or they may force us to lean into the Holy Spirit for divine spiritual gifts and resources to accomplish the tasks He has called us to do. Calling also always brings blessing.
Start with worship. When Ezra and the exiles return to Jerusalem after seventy years, they come home to: devastation. Standing on the barren plateau where the Temple of the LORD once stood, nothing is left. Across a landscape of broken stone, broken walls, not even the foundation is left. With the sun beating down on
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But if I have learned anything as a Christian, it is that keeping a stiff upper lip simply means we have hot lava in our souls that attacks God’s love for us, our salvation in Christ, and our Holy Spirit access to help. When I finally had the courage to become vulnerable and start speaking out about our pain, two things happened: I found I was not the only one dealing with this pain, and I found blessed release in naming the name of the pain out loud.
God loves us. God made everything and everyone, and people are God’s favorite and best creation. and God wants every person to live forever with Him. Including you!
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We are God’s high stewards, benevolent leaders to bless and protect and promote the earth and all the lower creatures so that the world continues to be beautiful, fruitful, clean, and strong. Like a silver crown of beauty that declares our calling to be God’s agents in this realm, stewardship is a legacy we pass on automatically from generation to generation.