As believers, we have chosen to embrace God’s gift of being a mom by being spiritual moms to those who have become related to us by the shed blood of the Lamb.
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The word "desolate" is the Greek word "Eremos" and it means solitary, lonely, deserted by others and uninhabited. When speaking of people, it describes a person that is deprived of aid and protection of family, friends and acquaintances.
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Over the past year or so, the Lord has given me a burden for His people to find real community. I think we use that word so much that we don't realize the importance of it or the power of community when it is truly lived out.
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As a woman who likes order and the smell of Clorox bleach, that verse is probably my least favorite in the Bible. I love a clean house, a clean office, and a semi-clean car (lol), and to be told that I have to choose between abundance on one hand and the mess of an ox on the other, seems like a terrible choice for me. Why? Because I also want to live abundantly!
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The word "tame" sounds nice and sweet, but some of its definitions should never be associated with a child of God!
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*This was written I response to the mass shooting that happened in Newtown, CT at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
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Learn what your mission is, walk in it and don't share it with anyone who cannot do the mission with you.
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Lionesses do life together, and everything they do is for the benefit of the whole pride.
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"I am NOT afraid! I was BORN TO DO THIS!"
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As our time of social distancing keeps increasing, let’s continue to keep seeking the Lord for creative things we can do to make a difference in someone else’s life, even as we are working on our own.
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Will you have taken advantage of the imaginal cells flowing through life so that things are different for you? The caterpillar became a beautiful butterfly; proof that different can be amazing!
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Our walk with Jesus requires the same faith, and when we walk in that faith, lives are changed (now all of Narnia will be renewed)!
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I am amazed by this passage of scripture! To love oneself enough to tear up someone’s roof in order to get to a healer is not surprising. It would not even be surprising for someone to do this for a parent or sibling, a child or spouse. However, scripture does not tell us that this man was related in any way to the four who carried him. They were just men helping another man and I find that exceptional. Why?
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Signs are meant to be seen! They are meant to stand out so that they cannot be mistaken for anything else. Are you in an inconvenient place in your life right now? Are you looking for an Inn, but all that is available to you is a stable with a feeding trough (manger)? Perhaps Abba means you to be a sign as well!
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We are the Shulamite in Song of Songs. We will come out of the wilderness leaning on our Beloved because we will have lived this life knowing who we are in Him: those who look forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun and terrible as an army with banners.
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As a 47 year old always single woman, who wants to be married, a large part of me would like to channel that “holier than thou” spirit (that can pop up in all of us from time to time), and say that I have never styled my hair, worn my clothes, freshened my makeup, or walked a little less like my shoes really weren’t pinching my toes, all for the purpose of being desired by a man. But, that would be a lie. A big one!
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It's bad enough being forced to carry a piece of wood that weighed between 75 to 125 pounds for a half of a mile, but imagine that this burden was to assist a criminal sentenced to die by one of the worst forms of capital punishment. Many of us would do this for a loved one. Some of us would even do it for a stranger we thought was a "good person." Very few, if any, of us would have done this by choice for a man whose crime was so bad the authorities thought death was the only just punishment.
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Matthew Henry was an English commentator on the Bible and a Presbyterian Minister. When explaining Zechariah 8:23, he said, "true grace hates monopolies." This quote motivated me to take stock of my life and to ask some hard questions:
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Servants know, so serve! Get close enough to Jesus to make yourself available to do WHATEVER He calls you to do. It may be something simple as filling a container, but that small act of obedience will lead to you seeing something wonderful!
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Joseph & Mary went to Jerusalem every year for the Feast of Passover. They traveled with a company of "kinsfolk & acquaintance." During one visit, when Jesus was approx 12 years old, they unknowingly lost Him. I say "unknowingly" because, although they had lost sight of him, they assumed He was still among them, in the company of people that they trusted. After one day, they realized that He was gone.
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