So this month is all about Valentines! Love is in the air and it is difficult to walk down a street without seeing heart shaped balloons and sales on chocolates…and it gets worse… come the 14th, everybody and their mother will be dedicating poetry and soppy love songs to the “better half”. So to keep in line with the...
read moreThe Word: He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth slander, is a fool (Proverbs 10:18). The Bible commands us to speak the truth at all times. Love does not lie. However, it is hard to maintain honesty in all things. Sometimes, it even seems like it would be virtuous to tell a lie, in order to spare another...
read moreThe Word: Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves (Phil 2:3). Prayerful Contemplation: Am I too preoccupied with my own welfare to notice it when something is wrong in another person’s life? Further, what do I do when people come to me with their...
read moreThe Word: It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness (Lam 3:22-23). Prayerful Contemplation: Today is a brand new day. I get a fresh start. Yesterday’s sin is confessed and forgiven, and should therefore be forgotten. I...
read moreThe Word: By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loveth (Song of Solomon 3:1). Prayerful Contemplation: This chapter of the Song of Solomon actually alludes to a soldier’s reaction on feeling a “separation” from God. The fact that the Shulamite cannot find the Beloved causes her to panic and think she has...
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