Watch Out for Fakes
We must be careful how we live, examine our hearts, and allow the Spirit of God freedom to roam the inner chambers of our motives.
Written by Chuck Swindoll, these encouraging devotional thoughts are published seven days per week.
We must be careful how we live, examine our hearts, and allow the Spirit of God freedom to roam the inner chambers of our motives.
Notice the wide highway that leads to hell. Highway speed is often breakneck. But the road to heaven and God’s blessing is narrow and more difficult to navigate, yet leads to life. A narrow road requires a much slower and more careful pace.
A teardrop on earth summons the King of Heaven. Rather than being ashamed or disappointed, the Lord takes note when our hard times are oiled by tears.
Rumours can be cruel. Lacking authoritative facts and direct sources, information is loosely disseminated, creating unrest, fear, and harm. That’s why God makes clear the importance of using our words to speak grace, not spread rumours.
We live such earthbound lives, enjoying and even fostering the notion of safety and security that when change is before us, everything in us resists. That’s especially true when God calls us to such an extensive change of location and lifestyle.
To have friends we must be friendly. Friendliness is a matter of being someone...more than it is doing something. The best overview of the wonder of how God designed you is found in Psalm 139.
Are you a closet skeptic? Only believing and accepting from God what you can explain or measure or see? Or are you a believer living in wondrous awe of His limitless power and infinite grace?
Stillness is an essential part of our growing deeper—especially as we grow older.
At that moment, he grasped the true meaning of Christmas. A man becoming a bird is nothing to be compared to God’s becoming a man. This was what the Saviour did—He came to rescue the farmer himself and all humanity from the cold of sin.
The King received the gold. Our Intercessor took the frankincense. And the One who died on the cross had myrrh wrapped about His body by His friends. The magi’s gifts to Jesus pointed to the utterly unique, glorious, and sacrificial ministry of the Lord Jesus.