Category Archives: trials
God’s Strange University
No book, nor tutor will give us the education we need. We must patiently go through seasons of difficulty and temptation before we can understand what our brother or sister is facing. Furthermore, we must advance through different levels; sickness, injury, loss and discouragement. On top of this, we must be tutored in the language [...]
Kissing Twisted Lips
God accommodates Himself to our ‘sickness’. We find that He has this beautiful quality about Him, that He becomes quite tender and gentle around any spiritual disease. In his book Mortal Lessons (Touchstone Books, 1987) physician Richard Selzer describes a scene in a hospital room after he had performed surgery on a young woman’s face: [...]
Vessel to Vessel: What is God Doing to Me?
Being Poured from Vessel to Vessel “Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.” Jeremiah 48:11 The expression, “emptied from vessel [...]
When Sin Brutalizes You
When Our Sin Overwhelms Us “There are three things for certain. #1 You will never forget your sins. #2 God has forgotten them. #3 The Devil will try to make you remember your sins. The question is who are we going to side with? God says our sins are past, cleansed, and gone. You cannot go on with [...]
Safe Haven
This poem is written in the Triolet form. I really love this form because it has the perfect amount of repetition, with lines 1, 4, and 7 being the same, and then lines 2 and 8 being the same. I have found that the Triolet is well suited to Christian poetry. Safe Haven This life is hard [...]
My Deliverer
My Deliverer “So Jehoahaz pleaded with the Lord, and the Lord listened to him, for He saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed them.” 2 Kings 13:4 “Then the Lord gave Israel a deliverer, so that they escaped from under the hand of the Syrians; and the children of Israel dwelt in [...]
Many Sons!
“For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering.” Hebrews 2:10, ESV “God is the One who made all things, and all things are for his glory. He wanted to have many children share his glory, so he made [...]
Release the Perfume!
“Your love delights me, my treasure, my bride. Your love is better than wine, your perfume more fragrant than spices.” Song of Solomon 4:10 “When a certain immoral woman from that city heard he was eating there, she brought a beautiful alabaster jar filled with expensive perfume.” Luke 7:37 What about you? What precious perfume is locked inside [...]