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In Court and On Trial

A few days ago someone was talking about how God is the judge in the courtroom of life, and we can try to put Him on trial as if we're the judge, but we can't do that because we're not the judge. Then I started thinking about what it looks like when people try to...

A Summary Look Back Before Going Forward

I've been in Deuteronomy in my daily Bible reading lately. Here Moses is giving the children of Israel a summary of what's happened to them since they left Egypt (Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers) before they head into the Promised Land. He's reminding them of the...

Heaping Coals of Fire

In Romans 12:20, we see the apostle Paul referencing Proverbs 25:21-22. In a modern Western way of thinking, the term "heap coals of fire on his head" gives me the idea that I'm exacting some type of vengeance or convicting with shame by being kind to people I don't...

When God Moves the Furniture

Sometimes God needs to rearrange your life. Sometimes He puts things in different places to better optimize how things are done, or gets rid of things to make room for something else, or does both to make it easier for you to move around. Sometimes God needs to move...

The Consequences of Doing God’s Will

As Charles Stanley put it, "Obey God and leave the consequences to Him." Obeying God is sometimes going to be scary, sometimes downright terrifying. But remember that God is the one calling you to action, so He knows what the results will be. God has called you, so He...

Letting and Keeping

A while back my pastor talked about keeping your life pure. God will give you all the help you need, but if you aren't putting in the work, it won't happen. You can't let your life be clean, you must keep it clean. He gave the example of a bathtub. You can't let a...

Instructions and Relationship

A while back while talking with some friends at church, we got on the topic of how sometimes God doesn't lay out hard and fast rules in the Bible, sometimes He lays out guidelines and principles so that we'll actually have to go to Him for clarification, and so that...

God Is Able. Are You Willing?

During the sermon yesterday that thought popped up while I was listening. God is able to do anything, yet am I willing to do it with Him? God can do whatever He wants, so if He calls me to something He will give me everything I need and help me to do it, so why is it...

Red Sea Stress

In my Bible reading today I was on the part when the Israelites cross the Red Sea (Exodus 14). I got a sense of how stressful that must have been in the moment. God purposefully put the Israelites thereat the Red Sea (Exodus 14:1-2) and told Moses that Pharaoh was...