We have gotten to the point in our society in which we expect our needs to be met immediately. As Christians, we expect God to know our needs and meet them without our even having to ask, but God clearly tells us that we are to pray and ask for what we need.
Aren’t most things that are worth doing easier to say than to do? At least I know that I need not do what is right in my own strength. Words are easy… deeds are tough… sometimes incredibly so.
We all know whom our workplace should call if something happens to us. But does our family know whom they should call?
Reading Becoming New is a powerful way to spend 100 days in God's Word. Be ready to be transformed!
In The Color of Water. McBride relates his own life raised in Queens as one of twelve black children born to a white, Jewish woman.
We often use Jeremiah 29:11 as verse to claim that God has great plans for us - and He does - but they may not be what we want - they are HIS plans; we are just a part of them. We need to stop worshiping the "God of my plans" and start bowing down to the God of the universe who knows all. He truly sees the forest and the trees. He is the ultimate planner.
