Category: bible
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Get Away and Draw Near
“Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you…“ – James 4:8 (ESV) The story of Jeremiah is quite a sad one when you dive deep into it. Jeremiah, a prophet of God, spent forty years desperately trying to save his fellow Israelites from the judgement coming. But they would not listen. He…
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Ruthless Faith
As I sit in this middle row seat of a plane and stare out into the night sky after a two-day conference that I thought would make me feel exhausted from being rushed and packed to the brim with the late night and early morning schedule, I find myself in the completely opposite position. I…
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If It’s Not Finished Yet, It’s Gonna Be – God Moves Us From Glory To Glory
“But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.“ – 2 Corinthians 3:18 The other day I was baking snickerdoodle cookies for the first time ever. As I was trying…
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Lay It All Down
To the one who cannot seem to let anyone else have more control than they do in their lives…lay it all down. Over the last month and a half, “laying it ALL down” has been on my mind a lot. Whether it was in regard to changing my major even though it meant leaving the…
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What Floods The Desert
But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me. Micah 7:7 NIV For the last 3 weeks, I have been in a flooded desert. Though there was pain, sorrow, and a lack of resources, none of it was a match for the…
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