“Your heart became proud on account of your beauty, and you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor.” Ezekiel 28:17 Lucifer apparently became so impressed with his own beauty, intelligence, power, and position that he began to desire for himself the honor and glory that belonged to God alone. The sin that corrupted Lucifer wasContinue reading "On Account of Your Beauty…"

Neutralize:  render something ineffective or harmless by applying the opposite force or effect; disarm. Reading in Luke 4 this morning about the enemy tempting Jesus in the wilderness.  He questioned His identity saying “if” you are the Son of God, and then enticed Jesus to act on His own will to remedy a situation inContinue reading "Neutralize"

We plead our requests, a list of needs and wants that we have determined for our lives and even others. We wait in expectation for God to deliver exactly what we’ve asked for like a genie to make our wishes come true. None of this taking a laundry list of our desires to make ourContinue reading "He’s Not a Delivery Man"

This was on my flip calendar last week and it has been on my mind since. This was Mary’s response to the angel that informed her that she would conceive and give birth to Jesus. Young, unmarried and given a purpose from God that could bring her and her fiance’ shame and disgrace in humanContinue reading "Let It Be To Me…"

When I started the car to leave work, in Christ Alone began to play on the radio. I smiled and began to soak in every lyric-it's one of my favorite songs. By the time the end of the song played--you guessed it, puddles in my eyes.                                 The song ends… 'til He returns or calls meContinue reading "In Christ Alone"

We will never find joy and contentment as long as we are the center of our world. As long as we spend our lives on ourselves; as long as we attend church looking to get something out of it for us; as long as we read the Bible with us as the main character; asContinue reading "The Life We Say We Want"

Can we just take some time to dispel the lie that broken is bad?? That it’s shameful or unattractive or somehow discounting?? That we need to retreat, hide and cover with pretense???The truth is we need to be broken. We need to fall from our high horse, from our pedestals, from our posing. We needContinue reading "Broken Is Not Necessarily Bad"

Thankfully, I’ve learned God doesn’t love me because I am cleaned up, religious or even because I am a Christian. He loves me because He is love. We didn’t earn His love and we can’t lose His love either. -- Jennifer Rothschild, Proverbs 31 Ministries. This was part of my devotion this morning. The sentenceContinue reading "Because He is Love"

So, today was the first time I have flown in over 20 years. I was not nervous about the flight, I am not concerned with leaving the country, I am fine with God stretching me to serve His beautiful daughters and love on them even if we may not "speak" the same language. The thingContinue reading "Baggage"

Minimum: the smallest amount or least quantity possible, attainable or required. We often want to give the bare minimum in most areas of our life. Maybe we have been at our job and lost our passion and drive and do just enough to keep our position. In marriage, we get complacent and often take ourContinue reading "Minimum"