These intense disagreements How very good and pleasant it is When kindred live together in unity! Psalm 133:1 Read Galatians 4:12—20 I am sure there are fellow Christians for whom I feel a more than ordinary frustration or protectiveness or disappointment or — could I say it? — zeal. When I reflect how much…
The lamp of your body God saw everything that he had made, And, indeed, it was very good. Genesis 1:31 Read Luke 11:34—36 I have been woken up. Like a tired and weary sleeper, called to be awake, alert, not to return to sleep.[1] To come from hiding in the darkness into the full…
Family family Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. Philippians 4:5 Read Colossians 3:18—23 Before I relate to any intimate fellow being, any close family member, or anyone I work for and am responsible to in my daily dealings, before any relationship and any responsibility, I live my life in…
Bread Hungry and thirsty, Their soul fainted within them. Psalm 107:5 Read Mark 8:1—10 I think I know this story well enough. Bread in the desert, it’s like the manna the people of Israel ate in the wilderness.[1] It’s a reminder for me to pray for my daily bread, to trust God a day…
Wake up! Better a little with the fear of the Lord Than great treasure and trouble with it. Proverbs 15:16 Read Revelation 3:1—6 Wake up! To be a Christian at all, from the outset, is to have been woken up. If I know Christ and I know myself as his, it is because I…
In Christ alone I am the Lord your God who brought you … out of the house of slavery; You shall have no other gods before me. Exodus 20:2-3 Read Colossians 2:6—14 I am part of a church because I am made to be part of a body. I’m not a spare rib that…