Leave them for the poor and foreigner Lev 19:9-10
It can be that easy to give a hand to others. God even decreed that the poor shall be cared for from our fields, our income. He has blessed us and asks us to in turn bless others.
Uncountable Blessings Numbers 6:24-26
Blessings have this remarkable uncountability about them. Simply by receiving a blessing, we could say that is one. But what happens when that blessing extends to someone else?
Three feasts with Jesus
I have really enjoyed thinking about the times that Jesus spends at table. It is so much more than learning from Jesus, it is a reminder of how Jesus was also human and needed to share in fellowship and food. I have also heard it said that Jesus often found trouble when he was at table, never escaping from teaching others through the ‘trouble’ they faced.
Lead us, Lord
On this July 4th Lord, we seek you as the leader of the United States. May you be the guide and…
Be still and know that I am God. Psalm 46:10
Be still. Weaken. Abandon. Let go. To be feeble. Forsake. Sink. Become helpless.
This is the Hebrew meaning of ‘Be still’ in verse 10 of Psalm 46.
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With 24 hours in a day, roughly divided into 100 segments, giving our tithe of 10% means that we (should?) give Him 14.4 minutes per day.
Loving as He first loved us. Reflections on 1 Corinthians 13
But Jesus left the 99 for the 1. He did not consider his own personal safety or the pain to himself – He just does.
Certain gradual transformation. 1 Corinthians 13: 8-13
This is not about lovable or unlovable. This is not about what I feel like. This is about putting on the cloak of Christ and choosing to set aside self and live as He lived, love as He loved.
All you need is love. 1 Corinthians 13: 1-7
Ah… the standard line of ‘All you need is Love’ – the Beatles sang about it, the flower power movement chanted it and a Harvard study in 2009 even agreed it – all we need is love. Yet, just because the secular world has claimed it for their own, does not mean that God’s truth has stopped being truth. There is something very powerful about God’s intentions, how could there not be worldwide ‘love’ movement?