God loves us is both hard to understand and easy to understand. Lets unpack it. People make trash, but we see God’s creation does not make trash. God’s creation had no pollution problem. Why would God make trash when he is making people who he especially designs? If he makes people differently, he has his good purpose in it. For example, children born with abnormal genes are not bad kids. They are just as lovely as other children in their …
Seek the Lord while he may be found is a well known verse from the well known 55th chapter of Isaiah. Here is more context. 6 Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near. 7 Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon. 8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. We …
I was struck by Isaiah 50:10-11 shown below today and started considering–Do we use our own fires? …Let the one who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the Lord and rely on their God. 11 But now, all you who light fires and provide yourselves with flaming torches, go, walk in the light of your fires and of the torches you have set ablaze. This is what you shall receive from my hand: You will lie …
Jesus says we should stay on the path, in fact he says: 13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. In High School, this reminded me that God loves us but wants us to follow him, carefully, as few find the road. I was thankful to be …
