If we are not willing to accept God’s sovereign and conforming designs/plans amidst our pains and sufferings, we will be gullible to the promises of health and wealth preachers.
Benny Hinn, we pray you into the reality of the biblical God who calls us to walk by faith and not by sight, believing in a crucified savior we never saw with our eyes yet love, a promised Messiah we adore for granting us ordinary, Spirit-filled days, glorious days that require us to stand up and walk in obedience. (not merely fall backwards)
Easy to blame King Solomon for his several wives and vineyards if you haven’t encountered the grace that prevents you from the vanity of getting to the top of the wrong buildings, every time.
Chances are, our marriage delays are rooted in worldiness rather than the word, no?
Good art speaks about real life, real life that is both damned yet redeemable.
God never designed us to only relate to him when the piano is loudest. Sure, he shook the mountain and parted seas when he came down in Exodus, yet many biblical stories are not thrilling mountaintop experiences, especially the crucifixion one.
People formerly animated by the spirit of the age and now by the Spirit of God need to apply themselves to his influence and ensure their short, yet redeemed time under the sun, counts for the glory of God and the good of others.
Until I was ready to love God without conditions, I wasn’t ready to be anybody’s husband, even Rhionah’s.
For more than a decade, I have always lived with a tension resulting from trying to reconcile what I read in God’s word and what I see in God’s world.
This platform is an aggregation of reflections resulting from that discord.
By God’s grace, until the sweat lies cold on my brow, I hope to enter his glory satisfied that his word was not only the lamp to my feet, but a lamp to others’ feet too.
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