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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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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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Collaborators With God
It is interesting that when once Jesus had decided to feed the crowd of five thousand people, He didn't just go ahead to perform a miracle. Instead, he told them: “You give them something to eat” (Matt 14:16).
Jesus engaged the disciples in performing His miracle. There is no doubt that with or...
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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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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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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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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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Living for the Crowd
There is a character in the Book of Jeremiah called Pashhur. He was a national asset. He could calm the nerves of a troubled citizenry and put everyone at ease again even if an actual war was looming. Kings loved him and false prophets adored him. He kept telling the people that all is well when in...
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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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