I can’t keep procrastinating on trust. If I can’t trust Jesus with this unwanted, anticlimactic, homely, nubbly, little faith-tester of a circumstance (whatever it happens to be today), I won’t be ready to trust Him tomorrow with something more grandiose. Either I trust Him, or I don’t. Right here is where the rubber meets the road.
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I can't keep procrastinating on trust. If I can't trust Jesus with this unwanted, anticlimactic, ...
Your deep gladness, His great purpose
My friend Sarah, a Canadian by birth, lives at the top end of Australia, thousands of kilometres away from me. Recently she had a layover between Canada and the Northern Territory and we were able to spend an afternoon catching each other up on our lives since we’d last met. We sat sipping frappes in…
Identifing Your Passions
The purpose of our passions is to honor the One who created them in us, but we can’t worship Him with what we don’t know we have. I firmly believe everyone has a passion. Sometimes we just have to search a little bit for them. So I challenge you, do you know what your passion is? What steps do you need to take to either identify your passions or cultivate the ones you already know you have?
A Passion for Authenticity
The desire to please people continues to haunt me, but growing up alongside it is a passion for authenticity, one which influences how I relate to others, how I share, how I think about community, and how I write.
Trust
“Lord, my heart is vulnerable, When it breaks I cannot take it!” My child, I am holding your heart And I will never break it. “Oh God, I’m so uncertain— I just can’t find the way to go!” Child, remember I am leading you; You don’t need to know. “Savior, I can’t see the turns…
Asking Some Hard Questions of Courtship
I have a confession to make. It all started several years ago when I began to work on some problem areas in my life. I realized I had made relationships and guys the center of my world… But I made a mistake. I started teaching courtship like it was a Biblical commandment and hedging myself (and others) in with a lot of rules and regulations.
Wisdom on Waiting from Elisabeth Elliot
When we are waiting on God, which I think every Christian ought to be all the time, we do not have a time schedule in front of us. We don’t know when or whether God is going to answer a particular prayer or do a particular thing or get us out of a certain situation or change any of the conditions of our lives. And sometimes we think of our lives as being on hold.
I don’t think waiting on God is a merely passive thing. And certainly it doesn’t mean that our lives are on hold.
Heavenly Harmony
Most of us are far from being naturally content people. We want to know the future, and we want to know it now. The uncertainties of life have a way of agitating the discontented and impatient soul, leaving little peace and much disquietude. In such a state, it is well-nigh impossible to have heavenly harmony. Our desires tug in one direction and our Lord the other. He calls us to rest, peace, trust, faith – the very things that go against the grain of our natural tendencies as faithless, fickle human beings. Furthermore, His is not only a call, but also a command to all that follow Him.
