Author Archives: marlageiger

We often wander through this thing called life seeking love. Searching for that perfect love that loves us unconditionally, flaws and all. We long to be loved. It’s a pivotal moment in our lives when we realize we really are loved, exactly the way we have been craving…from our Creator, our Savior, our God. HisContinueContinue reading “Loved”

I had the thought this morning how insecurity fosters defensiveness. Quickly, God reminded me of Daniel 3. Nebuchadnezzar was preparing to put Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego into the fiery furnace because they would not bow down to worship him. They would not compromise their beliefs, they would not cave under threats of persecution even toContinueContinue reading “No Need to Defend Ourselves”

If our love fluctuates with emotion and circumstance it is not true love. True love, agape love, is not a feeling but rather a decision. It is able to be offered because it comes from God Himself within us, His very character. It is loving the unlovable and the unlovely just as He would do.ContinueContinue reading “Agape love”

Wondering if we feel the need to justify our sin as opposed to someone else’s sin (pleading ours is not as bad or somehow appropriate given a situation) or if we feel the need to gossip or “spread” the word of another’s sin….or if we criticize and condemn others who maybe just don’t live upContinueContinue reading “The Illusion of Self Righteousness”

Thinking this morning…if we had all had perfect lives-made all the right decisions, never entertained sin, never failed, never been wounded by others, never been deceived by the enemy–we would have no testimony for our Lord and Savior.  We wouldn’t have needed Jesus to die for our sins and our lives would bring no gloryContinueContinue reading “Sharing our testimony”

God did not deny what we did to Him. He worked through it. He named it. He expressed his feelings about it. He cried and He was angry…and then He let it go. Nothing is wrong with wanting things to be resolved, but resolve will come only one way–with grace and forgiveness. The wrong canContinueContinue reading “Unshakable”

This provoked me think how God had given Adam and Eve everything, absolute access to everything except one tree. One tree that became Eve’s entire focus. She was convinced, with the aiding of the enemy, that ONE THING would make her content, would complete her, would make her “happy”, better, somehow more than she alreadyContinueContinue reading “One Thing”

Reading this morning in Philippians 2. The footnotes say…Jesus was humble, willing to give up His rights in order to obey God. So, I paused there for a minute and thought about His rights. Rights…we are so often shouting about ours in many different forms. That’s a pretty big deal to surrender your rights. ThenContinueContinue reading “Deity”

Freedom is found in us believing the truth about ourselves not in others recognizing it. Freedom from proving anything to anyone about our character and worth. Freedom in knowing we don’t need recognition from even one person to validate the truth of our character and worth .

During an educational presentation this past week for work, an illustration was used involving an iceberg. Everyone attending works in victim advocacy and we have had a wealth of instruction the past three weeks involving the evolution of laws, legal process with regard to victims, servicing victims including bias and ethics. So with the iceberg,ContinueContinue reading “Lessons From an Iceberg”