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Finding God in Your Pain
Sometimes we may have to suffer and to hurt and to be humiliated, so that, groping in the dark, Jesus Christ may become real to us. There are times when your despair and humiliation will lead you to find Christ.
If you read the autobiography of Harry Emerson Fosdick, you will find...
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Don’t Gag the Voice of Grace
Moses was groomed to be an Egyptian prince, but after his grave impulsive mistake, he became all beggarly and quite forsaken, eking out a miserable existence in a strange land, toiling for his father-in-law. For the next forty years, he was to do that which the Egyptians had taught him to despise –...
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Called or Driven
Gordon MacDonald identifies for us several marks of a driven person. One, a driven person is gratified only by accomplishments. He sees life only in terms of results. Two, a driven person lives in a constant state of restlessness looking for more greater results. Three, a driven person does not stop...
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That Elusive Trap
It may sound strange but what we most desire is not what we think we’re looking for. We may think that we’re looking for success, fame or money, but really what we’re all striving for is this elusive thing called significance. All of us, without exception, hunger for significance. Abraham Maslov...
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In God We Trust!
Self-confidence is a game that is as old as human history. It is easy for us to play the same game because we live in a culture, that is self-sufficient, proud, and competitive. People with wealth and political power-play call the shots. And we begin to think that unless we have such resource, then...
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Rock-Bottom Faith
One reason why we cherish happiness, security, and comfort so much is because we've been trapped into thinking that our life here on earth will last forever and therefore precious enough to be preserved and protected at all cost. Henri Nouwen calls it "an illusion of immortality". When I...
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Bread from Heaven
Exodus 16 carries a fascinating story about bread from Heaven. We know it as “manna”. Each day the people would go out and gather enough for that day. One day’s worth and no more, because manna would not keep. If the people tried to hoard it, overnight it would stink and crawl with worms and it...
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Losing Our Centre
We easily suffer from a kind of spiritual lethargy. We either become apathetic, jaded or just plain too tired. And consequently we find ourelves in two minds. We keep one eye on God and with the other, we scout the landscape for something else more that get the old adrenalin flowing. It is easy to...
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Delight Yourself in God
What does Psalms 37:4 mean when it encourages us to delight in God? One way you may take delight in God is to be delicately aware of the subtle ways God move in your midst?
Quite often we don’t even catch a whiff of God’s presence. We are often so preoccupied with other consuming things, we miss...
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