17 Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who rejects reproof leads others astray. (Proverbs 10:17 ESV) We do not always heed the good instructions we are given either in life or by God. We want to run off on our own, stray from the path and lead...
We are not Greater
14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. 15 For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you. 16 Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant[a] is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger...
Trust in Pain
15 Though he slay me, I will hope in him;[a] yet I will argue my ways to his face.16 This will be my salvation, that the godless shall not come before him. (Job 13:15-16 ESV) I must admit that I have struggled with Job. Watching him be brought down, not from his own sin, but...
Cultivate Peace
38 But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” (Mark 4:38 ESV) This morning I was woken up by an early morning work problem call. The call was brief, but afterward I...
Unwilling to Wait
15 For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel,“In returning[a] and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.”But you were unwilling, 16 and you said,“No! We will flee upon horses”; therefore you shall flee away;and, “We will ride upon swift steeds”; therefore your pursuers shall be swift. (Isaiah 30:15-16 ESV)...