When you find yourself seeking fulfillment in something outside of God, remember that He is faithful. He is good to His word and will fulfill His promises to you. Ask Him to remind you of His faithfulness to you, and He will.
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Just as the word love is used for something as simple as your favorite fast food meal and feelings toward your spouse or family, goodness can also be overused. Can your day be good? Of course. Can your food be good? Absolutely. But are those things the same degree of goodness discussed in Galatians 5 when discussing the fruit of the spirit? Not at all.
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It is only suitable that we extend godly kindness to people around us. This attitude is easy when the other person looks like us, thinks like us, or shares the same values and beliefs. What about when the other person loves the very thing you hate? What about when the other person hates the very thing you love?
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Patience has proven to be at serious threat in our current world. As Christians, we now must fight this instant gratification mindset that permeates modern western culture.
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Don’t you wish someone could greet you with “Shalom!” and you would magically feel complete, full, safe, whole? It doesn’t work that way, does it?
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The face of joy might be a toddler eating an ice cream cone on a hot summer day. However, once the ice cream disappears - or falls to the ground! - this fleeting sort of “joy” is gone.
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It is unjust to fight for ending the ill-treatment of the Ukrainians while we ignore our neighbor who suffers from the same ill-treatment. We cannot allow the mechanisms of injustice in our nation to blind us to the need for justice.
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It’s only because I was given the “second birth,” only because I was born again of the “imperishable seed” of grace, that I discovered my need of the gospel and was able to obey the truth of the gospel by believing it. You get all the credit, Jesus, from beginning to end. Salvation is of the Lord!
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After the events of the last year and a half, many of us would say that our joy has been shaken. My response to such a statement would be to ask, have we experienced joy?
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Many of us believe hope is just positive thinking. So much so, that we think if we believe something will happen, it can happen. If we drown out the negatives and only focus on the positives, our hopes will come to fruition. But I would argue that what I have just defined is no more than positive thinking and is not the true hope that has been created within us.
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We don't need to be educated on how disparity feels. We have all experienced moments, maybe even now, when it feels as if the chaos, the disparity, and the hate drowns out any hope or thought of peace. And as we reflect on the past year, the disorder is loud. The division is palpable. The hatred is strong.
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When you and I respond to Christ’s call on our lives, we are also responding to His call to make disciples. Jesus’ ministry was responsive. The disciples didn’t walk away from His teachings saying, “Wow, that was neat. Okay, let’s carry on.” No, they were changed! They responded.
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