Your Fingerprints or God’s?
You cannot sow a fleshly seed and reap a spiritual plant. You cannot plant a carnal act and grow spiritual fruit.
Written by Chuck Swindoll, these encouraging devotional thoughts are published seven days per week.
You cannot sow a fleshly seed and reap a spiritual plant. You cannot plant a carnal act and grow spiritual fruit.
It's the mystery of it all that gives it the power; the mystery of the whole process called God's working that makes the power so magnificent.
I don't see life divided into public and private, secular and sacred. It's all an open place of service before our God.
What is the most Christlike attitude on earth? Think before you answer too quickly.
God never wastes parents. He doesn't inadvertently "dump" kids haphazardly into homes. Nor does He deliver "accidents" into our lives.
This world is not out of control, spinning wildly through space. Nor are earth's inhabitants at the mercy of some blind, random fate.
God's goal for us as husbands is to be sensitive rather than to prove how strong and macho we are.
Discovering and embracing God's will leads us to make major adjustments. And that requires us to release and risk—releasing the familiar and risking whatever the future may bring.
Our ragged-edge journey is headed for a sudden stop. And all alone, standing face to face with God in that epochal moment, we will give an account of the life we have lived.
Let's remember that the greatest earthly gifts we can provide are our presence and influence while we live and a magnificent memory of our lives once we're gone.