There are times in life when loss knocks us off our feet and our backs are bent with grief. In these moments, we can find ourselves thinking, “This is too much.” Grief has a way of revealing our neediness—our inability to hold ourselves together and hold ourselves up. But Psalm 145:14-15 says: The LORD sustains […]
My Eyes Have Seen
“My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.” (Job 42:5) Suffering gives us intimate knowledge of God. Have you experienced this? When everything is going well in our lives, we know about God. We’ve heard that He’s faithful. But that’s just hearsay. Suffering turns that hearsay into personal, experiential knowledge of […]
What if
“If the LORD had not been my help, my soul would soon have dwelt in the abode of silence.”Psalm 94:17 (NASB) “If the Lord had not been my help, ______________________.” How would you complete that sentence? Maybe you’d say, “If the Lord had not been my help, I would still be looking for love in […]
Fountain of Faithfulness
God had proven Himself faithful to the Israelites. He parted the red sea so they could escape from Egypt and as they wandered in the desert, He turned an ordinary rock into a water fountain so they wouldn’t go thirsty. But it didn’t make much of an impression on His people—at least not a lasting […]
Security
Imagine yourself standing on the edge of a beautiful mountain (taking a selfie, of course) when suddenly you feel the ground beneath you give way. As you fall, you grab hold of a protruding rock and hold on for dear life. You feel strong for the moment, but soon your hands start to cramp and […]
The Recital
A few weeks before the recital, I got sick. “Bronchitis,” the doctor told me in between my coughing fits. And despite all efforts to rest my voice, I was still coughing when the big day arrived. “How am I going to sing, when I can’t even talk without coughing?” I worried. But Psalm 59:16 changed […]