Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to act. Prov 3:27 (NIV) A few months back, I was watching my 5yr old son in a swim class while my daughter was busy making friends with EVERYONE at the pool. She walked up to one group of mums...
How completely satisfying to turn from our limitations to a God who has none. – AW Tozer “Infinite” “God’s infinitude belongs to us and is made known to us for our everlasting profit. Yet, just what does it mean to us beyond the mere wonder of...
How priceless is your unfailing love, O God! People take refuge in the shadow of your wings. Psalm 36:7 (NIV) It’s a phrase we use. “To take someone under our wing” means to take care of someone is such a way that you pay close attention to them, teach them, pull them...
Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, your justice like the great deep. You, Lord, preserve both people and animals. Psalm 36:6 (NIV) Oceans Deep The righteousness David is describing here is something that belongs to God. He’s not talking about our...
Your love, Lord, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies. Psalm 36:5 (NIV) When David wrote this Psalm, the highest height he knew was what he saw when he looked straight up – the heavens. When he was describing the love and faithfulness of God,...
For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. Phil 1:21 (NIV) Paul was in his early 30’s when he was knocked to the ground and blinded on-route to Damascus. For 30 years, he had lived life one way. He persecuted Christians, tried them in court, signed their death...
But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found. Luke 15:32 (NIV) In the 15th chapter of Luke, we come across the stories of some lost stuff; a coin, a sheep and a son. When we look at the grand...
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. John 3:17 (NIV) I was driving my son to school the other day along a road that winds through some bushland that is being turned into a housing estate. We came upon a...
Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own. 1 Cor 6:19 (NIV) A temple is a place where a deity is worshiped. FYI. It’s a sacred place. In the Old and New Testament, and...
Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. James 5:16 (NIV) During a late-night Pinterest (obsessed) session… (I’m not alone, right?), I came across...
