Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek the Lord, until he comes and showers his righteousness on you. (Hosea 10:12 NIV) There are times when we need to break up our fallow, or unplowed, ground....
Still Small Voice
11 The Lord said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.” Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind....
Clay
Yet you, Lord, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand. (Isaiah 64:8 NIV) Consider that our lives are being shaped each and every day. Thomas Merton said, “Every moment and every even of every man’s life on earth...
Iron Sharpens Iron
As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17 NIV) Good relationships should build us up, make us better, accept our failings while trying to help us improve. As iron sharpens iron, our relationships should be the catalyst to living better, being better. We too must be the...
Walk with the Wise
Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm. (Proverbs 13:20 NIV) Walk with the wise and become wise. Seems pretty simple, and luckily I would bet that we can mostly confirm that this is what we strive to do. Few of us go looking...