But inPsalm 8:2, God tells us that the battle belongs not to the strongest, but to the smallest. Instead of warriors, He chooses thepraise of children and infantsto silence His enemies. The very image the world would laugh at is the one God callsHis stronghold. The Weapon of Praise: ...
THE INSTANCES which in the preceding chapters I have drawn from the beliefs and practices of rude peoples all over the world, may suffice to prove that the savage fails to recognise those limitations to his power over nature which seem so obvious to us. In a society where every man is sup...
God has work formeto do — as an individual, and together with his people.“For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”(Ephesians 2:10).And when God calls, he also equips....
See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. New Living Translation See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children,...
God doesn’t count us; he calls us by name. Arithmetic is not his focus. Isaiah had looked ahead and spoken the truth: If our powerful God had not provided us a legacy of living children, We would have ended up like ghost towns, ...
In addition, God would have us understand: His help often comes gradually.Think of: Joseph, languishing in prison until Pharoah calls for him to interpret his dream (Exodus 39:19-41:43) David, living as a fugitive until God fulfills his promise to make him king (1 Samuel 16-31; 2 Sa...
His display of love the purest and truest there is. He loves perfectly. And because we are made in God’s image, we can love. Love isn’t something that is derived from within us. It is radical. It is supernatural. For the kind of love that God calls us to–the love that loves ...
Jesus calls us to love our enemies, and goes on to give crazy examples of this, that almost no-one would follow. We are reminded that God loved us even while we were his enemies, and that he even died for us. That takes loving to a whole new level of abnormality. Not easy! Let’...
In our most difficult to painful times in life, we can crawl up into the lap of our heavenly Father, and know that He is for us, and His arms will hold us secure. “Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, "Abba, ...
God never calls us to do anything without faithfully keeping His wordand enabling us to do it. We are not always faithful to do what God tells us,but He remains faithful and stands by His word to fulfill what He has promised(Isa. 46:11). ...