Lord, my heart is not proud; my eyes are not haughty. I do not get involved with things too great or too difficult for me. Instead, I have calmed and quieted myself like a little weaned child with its mother; I am like a little child. Israel, put your hope in the Lord, both now and...
Though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food is for the...
At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of...
Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! “For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor? Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?” For from him and through him...
How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? For scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge. Turn at my reproof; surely I will pour out my spirit on you; I will make known my words to you. - Proverbs 1:22-23 NKJV My favorite TV show is Jeopardy! My aim is to get home...
At the command of the Lord they camped; and at the command of the Lord they set out; they kept the Lord’s charge, according to the command of the Lord through Moses. - Numbers 9:23 Every day the Israelites had to look to God to see what they were going to do. They...
Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see. Through their faith, the people in the days of old earned a good reputation. - Hebrews 11:1-2 NLT I regularly need to bolster my confidence in the Lord; the Bible is...
...so the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God. - Luke 1:35 NIV Births are amazing—miracles really! And if you have ever had an opportunity to attend one, I think you will agree. As one friend of mine exclaimed upon the birth of her firstborn, “It’s a...
We now have this light shining in our hearts, but we ourselves are like fragile clay jars containing this great treasure. This makes it clear that our great power is from God, not from ourselves. - 2 Corinthians 4:7 NLT When Lisa and I lived in Nashville, the city was just about to get its...
But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day. The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know over what they stumble. - Proverbs 4:18-19 ESV In our early twenties, a friend and I explored Spring Cave in...