A four-year-old girl, hugging a doll in each of her little arms, looked at her mother and said, “Mama, I love them and love them and love them, but they never love me back.” One of the most challenging things about love is that loving someone never guarantees being loved back.
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A little boy, frightened by a thunderous lightning storm, called out one night, “Daddy, come. I’m scared.” “Son,” the father said, “God loves you, and He’ll take care of you.” “I know God loves me,” the boy replied, “but right now, I want somebody who has skin on.”
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If there is anything that I battle with in my walk with the Lord, it is not praying as I go, but habitually taking time to pray alone with God. This practice was part of Jewish culture. Daniel was dedicated to prayer no matter the opposition, and Paul as well (1 Thessalonians 5:17).
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Life has a way of rocking our world in a variety of ways. There are times we find strength, and there are times we become despondent, perplexed, or even mad at God. These feelings can become so overwhelming that they affect our relationship with God and those around us, whether the children we parent, our marriages, extended family, church family, or even ourselves.
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The sight of birds soaring overhead can be awe-inspiring because they seem to fly with such effortless grace. But much like humans, who are not born knowing how to walk, birds are not born knowing how to fly.
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You look at the news and see the kind of devastation that is taking place in Ukraine, and you wonder if they would give up, but all you hear is send more tanks, need more ammunition, need more weapons, etc. They fight for the love of their country and their passion for having their own autonomy.
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When we often think about enjoying life, we focus on how to live a blessed and highly favored life. Typically, whatever we set out to do gets blessed, whether job-related, health, relationships, finances, or our well-being. As a result, when we think of how God explains gaining the life He died to provide, which is life and life abundantly (John 10:10), it seems complicated and sometimes unnecessary.
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A minister walking along a road saw a crowd of boys surrounding a dog. “What are you doing with the dog?” asked the kindly minister. “Whoever tells the biggest lie wins the dog.” “Oh, my, my, my,” exclaimed the minister, “When I was a little boy like you here, I never told a lie.”
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One day, a certain rich man visited a rabbi, who took the rich man by the hand and led him to a window. “Look out there through the glass window,” he said. The rich man looked into the street, “what do you see?” asked the rabbi.
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It is said that King Philip of Macedon fell asleep one day while hearing a case. Waking suddenly and not having all the facts of the case straight, King Philip passed an unjust sentence on the man who was at the king’s mercy.
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