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Habakkuk 3:3b “His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of His praise.” As I read this passage I can hear the rooster crowing in our back yard. He crows at the top of his lungs without concern of who will hear him. He crows if someone is listening or no one at…

“Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded” (James 4:8). Have you ever found a bug in your bed, some little insect that crawled its way there? Perhaps there was a spider, an ant, or (inward cringe) a cockroach! Immediately, we…

Psalm 18: 36 “You enlarged my path under me, so my feet did not slip.” I had a conversation in the grocery store one day with a friend about God withholding things from us to test us. However, the truth is, God withholds nothing that is good from His children. But what we think is…

“A prudent man foresees evil [danger] and hides himself;The simple pass on and are punished” (Proverbs 27:12). The other day I saw, and nearly hit, a dog sitting in the middle of the road. He was just sitting there! It was as if he thought he was invincible, that danger would not touch him while he lay in its path. He was…

Isaiah 55:12 says, “For you shall go out with joy and be led forth with peace.” This has been a verse that I have been contemplating lately. Too often in our society we walk around with anxiety and fear. We don’t know what God is doing or how He will provide, so we freak out, causing…

When Jesus had spoken these words, He lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son that the Son my glorify You” John 17:1 (ESV) How often in our hardships, trials, or testing do we look down and forget to look up? When our focus is down on…

And when Jesus came to the place, He looked up and saw him, and said to him, “Zacchaeus, make haste and come down, for today I must stay at your house.” Luke 19:5 I had a meaningful conversation with a friend the other day, and we covered the question: Is God welcome to stop by…

Years ago my siblings and I would dance in the kitchen while we cleaned up. I often played the lead part because there were more girls than boys. This made it very difficult for me to change over and do the girl’s part as the follower when we swapped dance partners. To help myself, I…

“But Jesus looked at them and said to them, ‘With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.’” I was reading in the Gospel of John where Jesus waits four days before He goes to see Lazarus, even when He knew beforehand that the man was sick. Jesus tells His disciples that…