Coming face to face with personal sin is a lot like waking up to find that you’ve driven your car into the ditch on the side of the road. We call a tow truck when we drive our car into the ditch, we don’t necessarily call God when we are face to face with our sin. Why is that?
Archive for April, 2008
The View from the Ditch
Posted in Pictures of Mercy & Grace, tagged faithfulness, forgiveness, God, grace, mercy, sin on April 30, 2008 | Comments Off
If it was a snake it would have bit you!
Posted in Pictures of Subtlety, tagged alone, Christ, Esther, faith, hope, Jesus, joy, providence, shepherd, sovereignty, trust on April 22, 2008 | Comments Off
I have this reoccurring problem in my life, I can’t find things. When I find them they are often in plain sight. My dad would always say, “If it was a snake it would have bit you!” The list of things that could have bit me include car keys, milk (on [...]
Another encounter with God’s subtlety
Posted in Pictures of Subtlety, tagged Christ, christian, desperate, faith, God, Jesus, Lord, providence, shepherd, subtlety, trust on April 20, 2008 | Comments Off
The saying goes, “Desperate times require desperate measures.” I wonder if God always agrees. Yes, there are plenty of times where He responds to desperate times in big, bold ways. But the more I search the pages of His Word the more I’m convinced that He is equally apt to respond to desperate [...]
Are You here?
Posted in Pictures of Subtlety, tagged christian, faith, I Samuel 9, lonely, Lord, trust on April 18, 2008 | Comments Off
Sometimes I feel very alone in the midst of the mundane times. God is obviously present in the midst of the miraculous, remembering that He is present in the mundane isn’t always easy. Lately, the Lord has been helping me trust Him by gently reminding me of a story I’ve known about for a while. [...]
