As I change, the lies can shape-shift, continuing to repress me and flatten me. The lies take the wind out of my sails. They hinder my soaring. They shackle my courage. It’s one thing to know God and know His attributes. And it’s another thing to know how completely contrary my heart is to God’s […]

I am a person who lives her life focusing on what I see. Seeing is more than believing because it gives my eyes and my heart a tangible purpose. Because if I can see it, then it must be real. Right? There are days I spend walking by sight and not by faith, until God […]

Stop seeing your next decision as your last decision. That’s a subtle way of putting yourself in control and taking over God’s job. Life is not one long road ahead of you, devoid of intersections. Life is a series of trails, with detours and switchbacks you never see coming. Today’s decisions are simply that: today’s […]

Death isn’t the end: not yours, not mine, and not the death of someone you love! All the tears and the grief and the loss you’ve endured gets to have a resurrection life. God doesn’t just end death; He resurrects the deaths we’ve felt. He uses your pain to ease someone else’s by equipping you […]

Worry has a way of stealing your perspective. It makes small things big. It makes light things heavy. It makes you hold on to things you would release. Worry ripples out into areas you thought were secure. But when you make a conscious effort to combat your worry with God’s words, He fights for you […]

We carry heavy things every day. It might be the weight of illness or the burden of a broken heart or simply living with lies someone burned into our trust. The weight threatens to crush us, smother us, erase us from life. Its enormity magnifies our feelings of insignificance, until we beg Jesus to bear […]

Countless times I have approached God with my eyes downcast and my head hung in shame, like a puppy caught after making a big mess. I’m disappointed in myself. Even though I have free will and make my own choices, I’m surprised by my lack of control over my impulses and motives. But because of […]

The enemy of your soul rejoices in comparison. He loves when you compare yourself to someone else’s perfect because he knows you will never measure up. He knows the truth even better than you do sometimes: the truth that you were never meant to measure up! If he can get your eyes to flicker off […]

Do you know OF God, or do you know God? There’s a difference. Knowing OF God is taking the stance that He exists, but outside of you. It’s as if you exist separately from Him. You may call yourself a Christian, yet only know OF God. But truly knowing God means running to Him first. […]

First of all, God. It’s just that simple, period! He’s a verb, a noun, an adjective and a pronoun. He’s present in all tenses of your life, and never farther away than your next breath. When in doubt (and you will have lots of those times), refer back to number one: God! When you ask […]