What is the one thing that can drive us crazier, faster, than anything else? To share something with someone else and not be listened to – they either don’t hear, don’t care, or they twist what we say and mean. To have someone turn a deaf ear or hard heart to what we share is maddeningly, frustrating. The more important the information is to us or the more personal, the crazier it can make us. If we share information based on truth and someone spurns our words and turns away flippantly this too, hurts. So it is with God. “…yes, …
Mission on Earth
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you’re alive, it isn’t.– Richard Bach Do you know what your purpose in life is? Do you know what your gifts are? Joys and abilities are gifts, but they can seem insignificant and can go undervalued and undeveloped by us. Here is a random list of gifts: Enjoying people An eye for composition and beauty whether through photography, art, or design Talent and ability with numbers and math; being able to balance financial statements Talent and ability with words The ability to see facts, truth and …
Sticking Close to our Father…
“The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands. Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life….” John 3:35-36 Have you ever been with someone important at a special place or event where the security people mean business? As long as you stay with that person you’re okay. If anybody approaches you and asks who you are and what you’re doing there, you either reply, “I’m with him (or her),” or your friend replies, “They’re with me.” And you’re good to go. The security personnel who could haul you out in an instant, step back and give …
Expect God – But Don’t Constrict God
We should all be expecting God to come into our circumstances, but we shouldn’t be expecting Him to come in a particular way. The Bible, all the way through shares story upon story where God shows up in a most unexpected and often unnerving way. He’s in a burning bush; He’s in a dream; He makes a donkey talk; He allows a person’s possessions and family to be swept away; He’s in a whisper; He’s in a jar of oil. In the New Testament, I think, Jesus must take great delight in interacting with each person, each request, each question …
“I Can’t”
Sometime ago I was laying on my bed thinking about my struggles with a particular relationship. I felt finished, done, wiped-out. I kept telling myself I should try harder and love them more. But I knew I couldn’t. I had gone as far as I could go. I didn’t have anything more in me to give. But still, I kept thinking, “Robbi, you are supposed to try harder and love more.” I was wrestling with my feelings and thought – “I can’t. I can’t. I don’t have any more love and patience and effort in me.” Then it hit me. …
Miracles Are a Divine Touch From God
Miracles are a divine touch…a supernatural intervention from God. Don Colbert MD I need God’s supernatural intervention and divine touch everyday. And every now and then I need a flat-out miracle. Thankfully, God is still in the miracle and restoration business. From the beginning He has restored, and enabled us to have a grand relationship with Him – the Creator of this awesome world. On top of that, He also restores (and continues to restore) lives, health, souls, and relationships. God has personally given me some miracles and for that I most grateful (and why I have this blog). The …
What Are Your Thoughts on Sin…
Do you ever hear the words “sin” or “righteousness” and struggle with them? Sometimes, I do. These words are used throughout the Bible. Even though I’m a Christian, occasionally I balk at these words. It seems to me that there are two reasons for this. The first one is that our culture in America is in love, (pronounced looooove) with tolerance. Whether it’s the majority (or the loud minority), I’m not sure. But there are loud voices that want us to believe every person should be allowed to do whatever feels right to them. No Stepping on Toes Moral standards …
Desperation and Calling for Help is a Good Thing!
Desperation, Help, and Green Pastures God never wishes to bring us to any place of pain and horribleness. He gives us thousands of opportunities to see His goodness, mercy, and truth but when we don’t get it, He is not above allowing us to enter into a place of desperation. And that’s a good thing! I thank God for the time in my life where He brought me to this awful place—filled with unbelievable heartache, pain, fear, and total hopelessness. For the first time, I saw the futility of my own strength, power, and wisdom. I had none. For the …
Great Opportunity or Impossible Situation?
Great opportunities (to know God more) are brilliantly disguised as impossible situations for which we need Him – with all of His strength, wisdom, and power. Which of these are you in need of today?
Danger: Reconstruction Zone
Reading in my Building Faith with Bible Pathway under the introduction to Ezekiel, I come upon this sentence – “After Jerusalem’s fall (in 586 B.C.,) Ezekiel began a message of hope, consolation, and reconstruction.” Reconstruction. That is what God does with us. It’s not exactly a beautiful word, like metamorphosis. Reconstruction is a rough word. You tear down all that isn’t right and healthy and solid in a building. You go all the way back to the foundation and the basics if necessary. You have to remove and haul off the debris. And all this before you can even begin …