Posts Tagged ‘obedience’
Housekeeping
The advent of spring generally brings with it a list of home projects to spruce up the interiors and exteriors of our homes. For some of us, there is great satisfaction in working to replace the dinge of winter with order, color, and freshness. Others of us truly enjoy the…
Read MoreWisdom A, B, and C
Our interstate road system gets a lot of mileage (pun intended) when a single Exit number is tagged with alpha characters to create as many as 4 different exits: A, B, C, and D. It can get confusing when the exits don’t appear in alphabetical order, or when the order…
Read MoreHow Pedigree Inoculates Against Responsibility
In the days of Jeremiah following the first wave of Jewish deportation to Babylon, the remaining Israelites in Jerusalem were admonished by the prophet to obey the Law of the Lord and turn from their evil ways. God spoke clearly through Jeremiah about the coming disasters of sword, famine, plague,…
Read MoreSitting in Judgement
Pigpen, a character in the “Peanuts” cartoon strip by Charles Schultz, is characterized by a cloud of dust and dirt following him around. At times in the raising of our boys, I felt as if Pigpen lived in our home. But in recent years that dust cloud has come to…
Read MoreJust Testing
Proverbs 17:3 reads, “The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but the Lord tests the heart.” Solomon is saying in this proverb that everything of value must be tested to uphold that value. In the case of precious metals, the testing is heat, fire. But because man often…
Read MoreI Did That
Success is revered in our culture. It is even more admirable when individuals have overcome great obstacles and disadvantages to achieve it. Dr. Ben Carson, retired neurosurgeon, who ran in the 2016 primaries for US President, makes my short list. He faced multiple hardships associated with his parents’ divorce such…
Read MoreGrace Is Not License
Moses, the leader of God’s people, was not a stranger to opposition, having faced off with Pharoah 10 times before being given permission to take the people out of Egypt. Sadly, opposition continued in the desert with friendly fire from his own brother and sister, Aaron and Miriam, who felt…
Read MoreOne Way or the Other
Most people know the story of Jonah being swallowed by a great fish. While many choose to look at it as an imaginative object lesson to teach obedience and the futility of running from God, in actuality, God has done stranger things than to allow a person to be swallowed…
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