Reference text: Luke 20:27-40 Even as you read this text, do you notice the patterns on your phone? The location of the clock and battery percentage or the colours on the app you currently using? Life consists of patterns- night then day, that is one pattern; winter-spring-summer-autumn that is another. There are many others like... Continue Reading →
FINDING WHAT IT IS WE ARE TO DO
Imagine giving a builder the housing plans from an architect only to realise that the entire building has been put up without a single component of the plan being taken into account? This is likely to be met with anger. This was the story of Israel with God when God reached out to Hosea in... Continue Reading →
YOU WERE KNIT TOGETHER BY GOD
Sometimes, it's just fitting to consider a pictorial representation of the words of scripture. Our text of focus is Psalm 139:13: "For You formed my innermost parts; You knit me [together] in my mother’s womb." Other translations use the verb "wove" and regardless of the choice of action word, one can envision the degree of... Continue Reading →
GOD IS NOT A MAN
DAY 267 Isaiah 55:8,9 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. Even though we are drawn into intimacy with God, as a new... Continue Reading →
A TEMPLATE FOR FOLLOWERSHIP
288/365 Exodus 17:12 But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.... Continue Reading →
TRANSFORMATION
281/365 Luke 17:16 And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan. It is of interest the that of the ten lepers who were healed, the spotlight falls on the one who returned to Jesus to give thanks. Even more interesting is that one line ' he... Continue Reading →