Here’s to Healing

Psalm 34:18 “The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit” I’ve always found it terrifyingly fascinating that in order to help an injury heal properly, it’s sometimes necessary to re-break a bone. Maybe it’s mind-blowing to me...

Turn Your Eyes

John 16:33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” I hate driving by a car crash. I hate seeing the red brake lights and the slowing cars and somewhere down the...

Disqualified

Ephesians 1:13 “And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit” I do this all the time. I disqualify myself. If you do this too,...

Will Peace Prevail?

Ephesians 2:15 “… His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace..” Perfect peace through Jesus, we act as if it’s unattainable. Correct me if I’m wrong, but we like to focus on what’s hectic, crazy, and broken. We rarely...

Full Hands

Ephesians 2:3 “All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath.” As I write this devotional I can’t help but recognize all that I have. I have...