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"Dear God, I...
Wait, what time is it? Need to keep an eye on it or I'll be late for work...
I thank you for this brand new day you've given me...
But it's so stinkin early...
I praise you for your great power, love and mercy...
I hate these early morning starts. I'm sure my boss gives them to me j...
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So it happens again. Frustration collides with shame as the realization sinks in. Tears fill your eyes and emptiness explodes through your chest. Weight crashes down on your shoulders and clouds cover the sun.
You have failed. You have sinned again.
The same old temptation came. Satan whispered in our ear. And we fell again. We stumbled in the mire of yesterday's sin. We dragged our Father's hol...
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"Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love."
- Revelation 2:4
Ever watched an engaged or newly-wed couple? The soppy looks and gushy words. How difficult it is to bring their minds to concentrate on anything that lacks the ingredient of having to do with their new love and how impossible it is to shut them up when their love is the subject of conve...
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"Chosen before the Foundation of the World." - Ephesians 1:4
It's a phrase that most will argue the exact meaning of, but a phrase that is nonetheless plainly stated in Scripture. Some argue those words to mean chosen for salvation, others claim it is for service after salvation, but the fact remains that we were chosen by a Sovereign God from before the foundation of the world.
What does it mean to be chosen by Go...
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"There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil. And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters... And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them. And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and...
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