To Take the Hand of God

Category: Spiritual

  • Let Our Praise Be For God

    Has no one returned to give praise to God except this foreigner? Luke 17:18. I could understand many things in our chapter, Job 29. Job laments what he had that is now lost. He begins so well giving all to God. How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me, when his…

  • Where Wisdom Is Found

    And he said to the human race, “The fear of the Lord – that is wisdom, and to shun evil is understanding.” Job 28:28. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight making known…

  • What Is Next?

    Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5-6.  I had an interesting conversation with two of our grandkids yesterday as we were eating lunch. I don’t even remember how the conversation started but one of…

  • Let God In and Be Renewed

    Our son and daughter-in-law are flying in today for a family visit and when our daughter recovers from a virus soon, we will all be together after 5 years apart. Needless to say, I didn’t get much sleep last night. I didn’t do my usual Bible chapter reading this morning but I sat in prayer with our…

  • Trust God’s Timing

    And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13. The Sovereign Lord is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to go on the heights. Habakkuk 3:19. We have reached the final words of Job and they stretch over 5 chapters. In…

  • The Things That Matter: Trusting God

    Because God wanted to make the unchanging nature of his purpose very clear to the heirs of what was promised, he confirmed it with an oath. God did this so that, by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before…

  • Help Us Be Ready to Believe You, Lord

    “She will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.” So all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, “Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall…

  • Light that Lifts the Darkness

    Then Jesus said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.” “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.” “Let us go over to the other side.” He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Quiet! Be still!” Then the wind died down and it was completely calm. He said to the disciples, “Why…

  • A New Dimension

    So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness. Colossians 2:6-7. Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. He will be like a tree planted by…

  • What Are We Being Saved For?

    If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him? Luke 11:13.  As for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me. Micah…