Let us examine our ways and test them. —Lamentations 3:40 Self-examination is frequently self-deceptive because we are skillful at self-justification. When we compare ourselves with others, we lean toward comparing our virtues with their vices. We are more tolerant of our own weaknesses and sins than of the […]
Wendy keeps bottled water and peanut butter crackers in her car—not for herself, but for those who stroll the medians at major intersections: Hungry — Laid Off — Will Work for Food. Wendy isn’t comfortable dishing out cash to strangers, fearful of feeding an addiction. But neither is she comfortable turning a cold shoulder to
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Nothing is too hard for you. —Jeremiah 32:17 You believe that God hears and answers prayer because you have measured the problems that you have had by the prayers that you have prayed, and are certain that God came to the rescue. So you set prayer over against the troubles you are
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I have loved you with an everlasting love. —Jeremiah 31:3 God in heaven doesn’t prohibit tragedy on earth, but he does promise his unfailing love: “Though the mountains be shaken … yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken …
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I know the plans I have for you … plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. –Jeremiah 29:11 Jesus didn’t
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Heal me, O Lord, and I will be healed; save me and I will be saved. —Jeremiah 17:14 The sickness of sin takes many forms: the fever of lust; the virus of greed; the infection of gossip and slander. Whatever the form, the result is the same—without treatment you die. Your only hope
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Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart. —Jeremiah 1:5 We tend to evaluate the worth of people by what they have and what they do—and our own worth by how we compare. Don’t
As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you. —Isaiah 66:13 She was 18, but she had a question for her dad: “Am I still your little girl?” You know the answer; she will
As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. —Isaiah 55:9 Paul planned
Seek the Lord while he may be found. —Isaiah 55:6 Describe your life in one word. Busy! Is that the word? You have a full plate; fish to fry; irons in the fire. You’re on the go; up to your ears; full
