Written by Chuck Swindoll, these encouraging devotional thoughts are published seven days per week.
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.
God the Son lowered Himself. He took on the flesh of an infant. He died a humiliating death. As a result, God the Father “highly exalted Him.”
Mary’s little Lamb was destined for sacrifice. But tonight she held her baby close, kissed His soft cheek...and wept quietly in the wonder of it all.
While Rome was busy making history, God arrived. The world didn’t even notice. Reeling from the wake of Alexander the Great...Herod the Great...and Augustus the Great, the world overlooked Jesus the baby.
Angels are at work today as well, relentlessly busy doing God’s bidding in the unseen world around us. If our eyes could be opened to see the angelic forces, we would be overwhelmed!
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