To know God. To search for Him. To pant after Him.
That is my desire. Just not a burning, driving desire.
Not yet.
But this morning I am both convicted and encouraged by the first five verses of Proverbs 2. Continue reading
To know God. To search for Him. To pant after Him.
That is my desire. Just not a burning, driving desire.
Not yet.
But this morning I am both convicted and encouraged by the first five verses of Proverbs 2. Continue reading
Some offenses and wrongs are difficult for me to turn loose.
Oh, I like to think I’ve forgiven. I like to think I’m big enough and strong enough and mature enough to get over it. But sometimes I allow those wrongs and offenses to stick around like the good friends they aren’t.
In Proverbs 20 I read this morning:
“It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling” (3).
That reminded me of a verse I read yesterday:
“The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression” (Proverbs 19:11).
Without question, I need a greater supply of (or at least, a greater yielding to) God’s discretion. How else shall I be able to cease from strife and pass over a transgression while deferring my anger?
That is solely the Lord’s work.
“Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?” (Proverbs 20:9).
Not I!
“Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit spirit within me” (Psalm 51:10).
Yes!