To Take the Hand of God

Category: Spiritual

  • 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…

  • God’s Truth Our Hope

    The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls, who, on finding one pearl of great value, went…

  • Remember

    For the Lord is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations. Psalm 100:5.  Reading this chapter, Job 20, I can’t help but wonder at the disconnect Job must have felt between his life before and his life now, in hearing the words of his friends. Remember God’s words about Job? Have you considered…