I both love and am a little afraid of the images in this psalm. I love the fact that I am so well known and loved by God. I am pleased that he will guide me throughout my life. At the same time, I am not always pleased with my thoughts, and am not sure that God is pleased with them either! There is

These verses in Isaiah are difficult to read. We are so lucky. Christ bore the sins of all of us. He carried the cross, laden with all of humanity's transgressions and iniquities. He did not deserve this fate! We were the ones that went astray, the ones that did not follow the instructions of o

Over the last two thousand years, there have been many people who have claimed to know the date of the end of the world. In Paul's day, people expected Jesus to return soon, and even though Jesus had warned them that no one knew the day or the time, there were those who claimed to know, just as

As Christians, we have been chosen by God to share His light with the world. Therefore, it is our duty to do it with mercy, kindness, humility, meekness (gentleness), and longsuffering (patience). It reminds me of 1 Colossians 13: 4-5: "Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not;

I think many of us have spent many sleepless nights trying to understand what life means and God's divine plan for us. God created heaven and earth. How can we possibly grasp His divine plan given we have only seen a fraction of one of his creations? We were given a choice: to be FAITHFUL to hi

What has any one of us done for God, or given to God that he should have sent his Son, Jesus, to save us? We have done nothing to deserve salvation. We have done nothing to deserve any of the blessings we have been given. It is only through the unconditional love of God that any of this has been do

Asking for forgiveness can be one of the hardest things to do. If we are unable to ask for forgiveness, what was the point in Jesus sacrificing Himself for our sins? Pride is a dangerous sin, leading to repeated mistakes and causing harm over and over again. "Humble yourselves in the sight of t

Do as I say, not as I do. Sounds like parents who have bad habits that they don't want their children to pick up! But the scribes and the Pharisees are more than parents; they are the arbiters of the Law of Moses, the ones who decide what the commandments mean and how they are to be observed by

I imagine that you may have heard the famous quote, "Keep your friends close and enemies closer." This quote has more nefarious intentions, but Jesus wants us to keep our enemies close for positive reasons: simply put, we can help them. It is our duty to love our enemies as ourselves in ord

The promise – Israel will be restored! Can you imagine how the exiles must have rejoiced at the promise? They will come out of the grave of the exile and come alive in their own lands. God will put his Spirit within them so that they may live renewed, obedient to the Law of Moses. One of the most p

God sent more than Jesus to Earth. The Holy Spirit surrounds us all, and John does not want the followers of Jesus to forget that Jesus is only one part of the Trinity. The Holy Spirit flowed through Him as it does through all of us. Worshipping one of the three would be like worshipping none at al