Imagine this opportunity as an amazingly attractive but fast-moving river. There is so much that looks extremely appealing about this river, you’re going to be tempted to jump right in. But once you are in the river, you have diminished your ability to make decisions. That river is moving so fast that it will take you where it is going. And if you haven’t carefully traced out in advance whether you want to go through and to the places that river flows, you’ll be in trouble.
No person’s rejection can ever exempt me from God’s love for me. Period. No question mark. The most beautiful love story ever written is the one you were made to live with God.
Friendships are like plowed open fields ready for growth. What we plant is what will grow. If we plant seeds of reassurance, blessing, and love, we reap a great harvest of security. Of course, if we plant seeds of backbiting, questioning, and doubt, we reap a great harvest of insecurity.
When a man is physically present but emotionally absent, a girl’s heart can feel quite hollow and helpless. This is true whether that man is her father, her husband, or even a man whom she deeply respects.
Now I’m not saying the act of going to church fixes everything. Just as simply looking at a restaurant menu won’t give you nourishment. We’ve got to engage with what’s offered if it’s going to do us any good. But putting my heart in a place to receive truth certainly got me going in a different direction.
Lord, give them enough hurts to keep them human and enough failures to keep their hands clenched tightly in Yours.
If we let it, unglued will allow us to become humbly and beautifully broken before Him.
I love the thought that God is in our midst and that He will quiet me by His love.
Jesus knew what being rejected felt like. Jesus knew. He knew the feelings. He knew the struggles. And in an earth-shattering moment, Jesus exposed the way of escape for us. He matched every feeling – the emptiness, the deprivation, and the rejection – with truths straight from God’s Word. Lies flee in the presence of truth.
The more we fill ourselves from His life-giving love, the less we will be dictated by the grabby-ness of the flesh.
It was about realizing the power of God taking over my complete weakness.
At the core of who we are, we crave the acceptance that comes from being loved. To satisfy this longing we will either be graspers of God’s love or grabbers for people’s love.
Humility can’t be bought at a bargain price. It’s the long working of grace upon grace within the hurts of our hearts.
Overstuffing ourselves with food or drinking until we get drunk or getting wrapped up in the affections of an adulterous relationship are all desperate attempts to silence the cries of a hungry soul.
We have to put our hearts and our minds in places where wisdom gathers, not scatters.
Sometimes it’s easier to overcome a fall and a break than the fear of failure.
If God is good and God is good to me, then I must fill in the gaps of all the unknowns of my life with a resounding statement of trust: God is good at being God.
While my heart wants to say yes, the reality of my time makes this a no.” I’ve learned the best “no” answers are graciously honest.
Sometimes a phrase lands in your soul with such weight it leaves the deepest impression.
Today’s choices become tomorrow’s circumstances.