1 Kings 17:17-24 V 24 Then the woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the Lord from your mouth is the truth.” Have you ever felt like life isn’t fair? You see others with more, and it can be easy to get discouraged. … [Read more…]
John 20:24-29 Vs 28 Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!”. Peter Wehner wrote for the New York Times a remarkable meditation titled Why Is Jesus Still Wounded After His Resurrection? This was about the wounds that remain even in the risen Christ. John’s gospel says that in the midst of their fear, Jesus appears to … [Read more…]
Psalms 139:13-24 Search me, O God, and know my heart.(Psalms 139:23) To this day I can still hear my mother telling me to go and clean up my room. Dutifully, I would go to my room to start the process, only to get distracted by reading the comic book that I was supposed to put … [Read more…]
Psalms 139:7-12 The Lord searches all hearts and understands all the intent of the thoughts. (1 Chr 28:9) My friend’s husband was in the last stages of dementia. In his first introduction to the nurse who was assigned to care for him, he reached out for her arm and stopped her. He said he wanted to introduce … [Read more…]
Luke 5:27-32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.(Luke 5:32) Even before I could afford a self-cleaning oven, I managed to keep my oven clean. Guests even commented on it when we had them over for a meal. “Wow, your oven is so clean. It looks like new.” I accepted … [Read more…]
Matthew 7:24–29 Whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock. (Matthew 7:24) “I’ve got bad news for you,” said the builder, who was renovating an old house I had inherited. “When we started to convert the back half of … [Read more…]
1 Samuel 20:32-42 Two are better than one. (Ecclesiastes 4:9) In the novel Shane, a friendship forms between Joe Starrett, a farmer on the American frontier, and Shane, a mysterious man who stops to rest at the Starrett home. The men first bond as they work together to remove a giant tree stump from Joe’s land. … [Read more…]
Jonah 1:1–2:2 I cried out to the Lord because of my affliction, and He answered me.(Jonah 2:2) When our daughter was too young to walk or crawl, she created a way to hide from people when she wanted to be left alone or wanted her own way. She simply closed her eyes. Kathryn reasoned that anyone she … [Read more…]
Genesis 12:1-10; 13:1 Our fathers trusted in You; they trusted, and You delivered them.(Psalms 22:4) Before my wife and I embarked on a 400-mile road trip, I set up the GPS with our daughter’s home in Missouri as the destination. As we traveled through Illinois, the GPS instructed us to get off the Interstate, resulting … [Read more…]
Matthew 8:1-4; 9:9-12 Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.(Matthew 9:12) In India I worshiped among leprosy patients. Most of the medical advances in the treatment of leprosy came about as a result of missionary doctors, who were willing to live among patients and risk exposure to … [Read more…]