Happiness can be hard to find in this life. And can be very fleeting once found. There are times when we may feel that if only this or that were different, we’d be truly happy. Only after many years of searching and waiting we discover, by the grace of our loving Father, that true happiness…
Do you have a sister? I thank the Lord that He gave me my sister. We love each other, but we are very different. Not only in looks, but also in personality, interests, and abilities. Mary and Martha are two sisters in the Bible who also were very different from one another, yet alike in…
She was there when they crucified her Lord. She helped prepare His body for burial. All the while her soul filled with the agony of grief. How can this be? He was a good man. He was my Saviour, my Lord. The One who delivered me from the torment of demon possession and illness. He…
Jesus has been betrayed, and forsaken by all but two of His disciples. The Jews bring Him to Pilate seeking His death. In response to Pilate’s questioning, Jesus references truth. Then… Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them,…
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. John 16:33 The world is constantly seeking to overcome us, to discourage, and even destroy us. Jesus warns that this will always be the…
I have met and known some unhappy, and even depressed, Christians in my life. Maybe you are one. Maybe life hasn’t turned out the way you had expected. And maybe there are problems, really tough problems, in your life. Some of those problems may be the natural consequences of sin…either yours… or someone else’s. And…
Then said they unto him, Who art thou? And Jesus saith unto them, Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning. John 8:25 I used to read the gospels and think, “Why is Jesus so vague with the Pharisees when they ask Him to tell them plainly who He is? Doesn’t He want…
In our reading this week, we see the Pharisees doing a lot of judging. They judge Jesus in Chapter 7. And in chapter 8 they judge a woman taken in adultery. Both times Jesus rebukes them. Why? Our culture would say that it is because no one has the right to judge another. However, that…
One of my biggest temptations, or “weights which doth so easily beset” me, is the temptation to feel inadequate. I generally have a positive attitude about life. I like and act upon the saying, “Where there’s a will, there’s a way.” I usually see life as the glass half full. So, it really is baffling…
In our chapter this week, John 4, we read of a woman who has been married five times and is currently living in sin with another man who is not her husband. It is very tempting to me to quickly judge this woman. How could she live that way? Surely in that culture, she knew…