Written by Chuck Swindoll, these encouraging devotional thoughts are published seven days per week.
Your desert experience might involve caring for an ailing family member or an elderly parent over an extended time, with no help at hand and no relief in sight. Your sojourn in the dry lands might be a stubborn physical condition that keeps you confined.
We've been programmed to think that fatigue is next to godliness. That the more exhausted we are (and look!), the more committed we are to spiritual things and the more we earn God's smile of approval....
The best framework for the Lord God to do His most ideal work is when things are absolutely impossible and we feel totally unqualified to handle it.
Let me make three practical suggestions to you who are parents.
That's the whole point of greed. You'll want more and more of something that really isn't good for you. And in the getting of it, you'll suffer the painful consequences.
Though I have walked with God for several decades, I must confess I still find much about Him incomprehensible and mysterious. But this much I know: He delights in surprising us.
My fear for our present rapid-paced lifestyle is that we have so few memorials, so few monuments, even mental monuments. Life is lived in the fast lane.
Here's a question worth your time: What are we to do when worry comes knocking on the door of our mind?
Like a cool, cleansing shower on a hot, sweaty day, God's forgiveness washes away not only sins but their tormenting guilt.
We are a success-saturated society. The telltale signs are everywhere. Each year dozens of books and magazines, scores of videos, and hundreds of seminars offer ideas, motivation, techniques, and promises of prosperity.
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