Category: Trials

Enter into my Rest…

The rest of God ~  the phrase rolls off my tongue and fills me with a refreshing hope.  I am in a place of needing rest ~ like a large glass of water!  Many believe, rightly so, that this rest…

Everything, Really?

“I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord…” Philippians 3:8 Everything Lord, really? Consider everything a loss?  This is quite a statement by Paul and it is a crossroad that we, who…

The Good Shepherd

I know a man who works just outside the center of Philadelphia.  He was telling us about the many homeless and other derelict people who inhabit the streets near where he works.  He is often pan-handled as he makes his…

Consuming Fire

Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe,  for our God is a consuming fire. (Hebrews 12:28~29) This is what I call a “chewy”…

I need Jesus

” The wife of a man from the company of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that he revered the Lord.  But now his creditor is coming to take my two boys as his…