The Action in Faith-filled Introspection
Feeling introspective, and for me that often means asking the same question as the psalmist “why so downcast, oh my soul? Why so disturbed within me?” “Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope…
A Promise to Rejoice In
Feeling beaten down? Weary from troubles that continue to multiply?Consider the story of Joseph, and rejoice! After suffering for years — sold into slavery, slandered, imprisoned — he sees God’s redemption, and in Genesis 50:20, Joseph confidently declares to his…
The Declaration: I Lack No Good Thing!
Oh, it’s hard. To feel a void, an unmet need or want or desire. To feel an ache that’s not yet satisfied. How do we confidently declare that we lack nothing? It seems to far-fetched, dare I say even a…
The Call: Take Up Your Cross
Like pieces of a puzzle coming together, I was struck by the vision of what it really looks like to take up our cross as Jesus commands. We like to think of this concept as burdens we carry, or at…
Come and Show Me
When we have questions and doubts, fear and anguish, turmoil and temptation—where do we turn? God tells us in Jeremiah 33:3 to call out to Him and He will show us what we long to know. He will teach us,…
