Morning Musings – Page 183

Morning Musings: Psalm 1:6

April 18, 2018April 17, 2018Leave a comment

“…for the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.” (ESV – Read the chapter)

One time on a retreat in the mountains I went for a hike. Now, I had been hiking before, but this was the first time I had done any real hiking. All of what I had done before had been short hikes on trails that were well-maintained and about as obvious to follow as a sidewalk would have been. And wouldn’t you know it, on my first experiment with the real thing, I got lost. Read the rest…

Morning Musings: Genesis 12:2

April 16, 2018April 12, 2018Leave a comment

“And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.” (ESV – Read the chapter)

God’s blessings when we experience them are an amazing thing. Have you known the blessing of God before? Have you experienced the weight of His presence in a hard moment? Have you worn the lightness of His burden when you were deep in the trenches of life? Have you had one of those moments when everything was going right? That must have been something like what Abram was feeling. Read the rest…

Morning Musings: Colossians 2:6

April 13, 2018April 10, 2018Leave a comment

“Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him…” (ESV – Read the chapter)

Our confession when we become followers of Jesus is that He is Lord. Well, if we really believe He is Lord, this is necessarily going to affect how we live. Read the rest…

Morning Musings: Job 29:1-4

April 11, 2018April 10, 2018Leave a comment

“And Job again took up his discourse, and said: ‘Oh, that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me, when his lamp shone upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness, as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was upon my tent…'” (ESV – Read the chapter)

Job’s ordeal had been intense at this point. He had lost everything including his health. That’s not really specific enough. He had faced total financial ruin. All of his children had died in a tragic accident (an accident we, the readers, know was caused by Satan). His wife had functionally abandoned him out of her own grief. And he was experiencing horrendous physical suffering as well. To make matters even worse, three of his best friends had spent days with him arguing with greater and greater intensity and insistence that he was ultimately to blame for all of his troubles because of some sin that was going unconfessed in his life. The old adage, “when it rains it pours,” does not even begin to cover it here. Read the rest…

Morning Musings: Mark 10:28

April 9, 2018April 4, 2018Leave a comment

“Peter began to say to him, ‘See, we have left everything and followed you.'” (ESV – Read the chapter)

What Peter says here is no small thing. Have you left everything and followed Jesus? Have you really left anything to follow Him? What did you leave behind? If you have indeed not left anything behind, there is a rather uncomfortable question you are going to need to answer: Are you really following Jesus? Read the rest…