Imagine God clothed in a flame of fire rising from the midst of a bush. Imagine staring into the blaze, realizing that the bush is burning, but the flames are not consuming it. Imagine hearing God call your name out of the flame and picture being told to take your...
Sometimes life is difficult. In the hardest seasons, I have allowed myself to sink deep into the dark, believing things will never change. I have learned, though, that God exposes a crack of light in the darkness when I least expect. What I believed impossible slowly...
In the past, when I have studied Job, I have focused all my thoughts on Job’s suffering. I have struggled to understand why God would work in such a way, orchestrating the situation the way He does and allowing evil to have its way in Job’s life. I see the equation I...
As I reflect on Job, I imagine Job’s friends seeing his appearance as they walk toward him. I see each of them forming a conclusion because of what they see. Job 2:11-13 describes the scene: “Now, when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come...
It is an interesting thought to think about what we think about. At first, it seems an unnecessary endeavor. Immediately, we might look to the question and respond, “who has time?”. In reality, though, we could be wasting a substantial amount of time in our thought...
