Man measures time in years or ages or eras. But not God, He has always existed and always will. He existed for Adam and Eve, for Paul, for my grandmother, and He exists for me.
All in God's Presence
You Can Do the Hard Stuff
When I am going through hard things and the sun goes down on the day, everything
seems worse. The night comes and Satan steps in working in the darkness. He stirs up
fears and illuminates my failures. I reach for my Bible. The words that once jumped off
the page now run together. I get my phone and play “Don’t Stop Praying.” I close my
eyes and let each word sink in. I pray out loud to God to give me the strength to keep
the faith as I battle health problems and all the worries that come along with life.
Salvation Lasts Forever
When my daughter was about two years old, she loved to play games with her daddy. During one of these games, she would run to her daddy, he would catch her and throw her up in the air. She would giggle and as he put her down, she would run away and say, “Do it again!” and run back toward him giggling.
Hemmed In
Walking the paved dam between two small lakes, I noticed a family of ducks paddling toward shore. Noticeably, the mother duck led the family while the father duck anchored the end of the line. Several ducklings swam effortlessly between the two.
Blink!
“Don’t blink,” cautioned the technician at the ophthalmologist’s office, all the while flashing a light directly in my eyes, making it almost impossible not to blink. I could not stop thinking, “Just how much longer will this misery last?”