Our Place at His Place (Page 3)

It’s easy to think you’re just sitting in the audience; when the truth is, you’re on the stage. Not only are you not irrelevant, for heaven’s sake, you’re the center of attention.

Kindness just wants to numb the pain or alleviate the suffering. But love is deeper, more stern. Love longs to help face the pain, to walk through it.

Tell yourself the truth: do you put more energy into peacemaking or troublemaking? Because, we all slide to one side of that scale!

We’re called to discern, but warned not to condemn. But before you take off on someone, we better go through a “pre-fight” checklist.

When we judge someone’s intentions, we presume to know the motives of their heart. I don’t know about you, but I struggle to figure out my own motives, let alone yours!

It is incomprehensibly mind-blowing that God – the God, of all creation – wanted to have a human dad! God Himself became just like us and had a human dad!

When you feel forsaken and afraid, don’t abandon your “post” in the pit. Some battles may be lost … but victory is assured!

While God doesn’t do the tempting, we must realize that God does allow the testing. And this testing has an eternal reason and reward.

A defiled dollar bill retains all its undefiled value. As do you. Because its condition doesn’t determine its value; the bill’s value is determined by something far greater: its creator. As is yours.