How often we don’t turn to God, the Creator, the one who made us, who knows how we operate, and has given us guidance on how to live life. The fact that we, like children, go a different way than what the parent tells us to do, says it all. For the word of God is living...
We know that we will see the people we love again. But that doesn’t mean the hurt isn’t extreme. God, in His humanity, felt that grief, one of many burdens He carried to Calvary for all of us. In Revelation 21:4 (NIV), we are promised a future reunited with loved ones where...
Jesus is the answer. Personally, there are times when the going gets rough. It’s at those times that I run to the only one who can take over the hurts, the pains, the fears, the lack of understanding of why things happen. School shootings. Why take an innocent life? Why do childre...
Abraham waited for a son, Joseph waited for deliverance, David waited to be made king, Israel waited for a Messiah, and we all wait for the return of the serpent crusher. You might say that the entire narrative of scripture is one of waiting. ...
Indeed, if Jesus was misunderstood, mistreated and hurt, and He was The Son of God, we cannot expect our life to be without these issues. Jesus endured the worst pain, but scripture tells us, “He despised the shame” (Heb. 12:2). There are moments when we will have to endure suffe...
Sometimes we need to look at our childhoods as things their mean we look at God through a certain lens. One that is not always quite as He is. Be kind and compassionate to yourself as He is so full of kindness and compassion. Some need rules, others of us need gentleness and I think...
Those phrases are pretty hopeless sounding, aren’t they? Heartbreaking actually. More than anyone else, God hurts for people who hurt that deeply. People are searching. People are struggling. People need God. All of us do. What do you do when it feels like no one cares about you? Here...
35 And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they shall divide. 36 Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall sure...
t take an extensive perusal of history or the Scripture to see that God’s people are led through anguish. And yet when it comes down to it, when the pain hangs poised to strike, somehow I still find myself believing that we will be spared. Or begging for it, whether I believe it ...
We all could relate to being exiled like so many biblical men and women who often were confused, hurt, anxious etc…. when God allowed painful times of Exile. One sister recently made the tough decision to shake their adult child out of the warm nest of her home…. knowing that this wa...