The rewards of being the bride of Jesus are out of this world. The joy that He gives is not based on life’s changing circumstances but based on the unchanging holy God that He is. His promise of ever after is sweet and He lives forever so He is able to deliver on this promise….
Category: About God, Bible, and Eternal Perspective
Purifying Love
Eph 5:25 For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her 26 to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word. 27 He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or…
We Are His Beloved
How does God love us? Let us count the ways. 1. Unconditionally Not because of any exceptional or endearing qualities but even while we were opposing Him, Jesus died for us. Rom 5:8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 2. Steadfast and…
The Rescue
How grateful would you feel if someone queued up for you to get an airline ticket during travel peak season? How about if a warrant of arrest was issued against you on a Friday and just five minutes before the work day ended, someone bailed you out? How about if a bad case of diarrhea…
His Passion For You
Have you tried giving up a delicious meal so someone you love could eat? Have you given up sleep so you could take care of a sick family member all night? What would you do for someone you love? What difficulty did you go through for that person? Was that person aware and grateful for…
Prince of Peace
Peace is most valuable is when when it is absent, whether by some kind of conflict, some circumstance that is bothersome or worrisome. God’s Word tells us that we can have peace. Isaiah 9:6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders….
Our Happily Ever After
It’s a tale as old as time. Someday my prince will come… Many little girls have watched romantic scenes of the prince with a passion braving odds to rescue the young lady. He professes his true love for her. He wants her to be his bride. She is dressed in a beautiful white gown. She…
Do You Sometimes Feel Like A Prisoner?
There are times when it seems unfair that the array of response options I have now as a prisoner of Christ have been drastically reduced. These have been taken off the menu: a slipping expletive to amply express the degree of emotion, impeccably apt descriptions of “despicable” actions, putting people in their place the old…
God Has the Final Answer. Put Your Hope in God.
Have you been seeking to align yourself with God’s will but have been discouraged by what a person has said? Even a person who is your authority? Proverbs 21:1 NASB says The king’s heart is like channels of water in the hand of the Lord; He turns it wherever He wishes. Can you picture that…
God’s Plan Can Not Be Thwarted
The Egyptian king was fearful that the Israelite slaves would become too numerous and he imagined that they might turn against his country so he ordered that they be oppressed to stop them from multiplying. But the more the Israelites were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread. Exodus1:10-11 10 Come, we must deal shrewdly…
BUTTERFLY IN THE SPRING 