Death is swallowed up in victory.
O death, where is your victory?
O death, where is your sting?
I saw these little children not only as the future builders in His kingdom but I also saw them as already now kingdom builders as little as they are.
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Whatever it is you might be 'running from', the story of Jonah in the boat tells us that when he came to realise he was trying to run from God, and when he finally stopped running, the storms - the raging... stopped.
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If these poetic lines tell us anything, it's that David realised that he could not survive without God.
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I guess I find this sort of encouraging. Even when I feel like a failure, it's ok. God is still there. It happens to us all and God knows and understands…
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Nothing makes the promise of never leaving us. Or at least nothing can make the promise - AND KEEP IT.
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One of my favourite pictures of Jesus, is that of Him riding on a donkey. Why did He ride on a donkey? He made a particular point of asking His disciples to go and find the particular colt (a donkey’s foal) for the job. And not only that, but this colt and its mother were known by Jesus to already be in a nearby village waiting. They were there by heavenly design for the moment when the King of kings would require them.
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There are six facts about Jesus' death and resurrection that are agreed on by almost all scholars. It doesn't matter whether the scholar believe in God or not, they can all agree on the historical reliability of these 6 facts…
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Perhaps I will stop calling January the dead month, and start calling it the alive month. The living month! As God restores life and energy where it had before been dwindling…
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Church is a banquet, a smorgasbord of God's word. We feast together spiritually on a Sunday morning and have access to much much more during the week if we seek it…
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Let's notice the generations of faith in this passage. Paul, Silas and Timothy took the gospel to the Thessalonians, who received the word in faith and turned from false Gods to the true God…
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This song speaks of how the presence of God is a Holy Place where we are free to lift up our sorrows to God and to make a sacrifice to Him of all our shame. When I heard these words, my head began to reel and spin with all of the biblical connotations of tears, shame and sacrifice.
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“Your faith has made you well.”
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God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.
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We remember everyone who is born from God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world – our faith.
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“But I trust in you, O Lord; I say, “You are my God.” My times are in your hand. Psalm 31:14-15 ESV
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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, humility and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
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While meditating on this thought, I pictured a huge table laden with indulgent food; a banquet with people gorging themselves with food. Sounds pretty good, right? What will they do afterwards?
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Lament is incredibly common in the Bible - many of the Psalms, there's a whole book called Lamentations, even Jesus laments in Gethsemane and when Lazarus died.
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In an incredible act of grace and long-suffering, God sent His son, Jesus. Every time we mess up, Jesus is still holding up His end of the promise. Through Him, faithfulness is credited to us as well.
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