Dear Immigrant, Refugee, Marginalized, Rejected, Stranger, and Those Different From Me: I’m a white, female, 20-something, privileged and sheltered Christian. I loathe politics, and I struggle to fit into any political party. People close to me know politics make me queasy. But seeing your pain and the dissension around us has made me even more queasy. I tried…
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Return to your rest, my soul.
Are you having trouble giving God the benefit of the doubt? Maybe you’re staring at a mountain, wondering how to keep believing and trusting God will move it when you aren’t feeling it. I was there just a few weeks ago. Fortunately, we are not helpless in our discouragement. Faith itself is a gift from God, but…
This is the God who pursues you.
My pursuit of Christ has been more of a job these days, and you’ve probably experienced a season like this. As much as I’d like to tell you that my faith in Christ has always and only entailed floating from spiritual high to spiritual high, I’d be selling my walk with God woefully short. But any apathy I fight…
By prayer and petition.
Are you needing something from God? Are you making the same request of God over and over? Have you been asking God for something lately, and you remain in the waiting place? I may never understand the waiting. Although I’ve recently learned we’re not called to be quiet or indifferent about it–but engaged and involved, arguably…
Because we know God.
I write a lot about God’s voice. I write a lot about the fear of missing it. When I discuss hearing God, I don’t always mean audibly. We hear God in different ways, but largely through scripture, people, and the Holy Spirit within. You can probably tell that I personally struggle with being too obsessed with hearing God’s…
What is better.
You’re being pulled in a million directions lately, coming apart at the seams. It’s sometimes the unfortunate byproduct of a particular, but fleeting, season of life. That’s one thing. Other times, it’s an unending and direct result of your choices. And that’s quite another thing. I’m talking about the latter, and I’m mostly talking to myself. Short-fused, with clenched fists,…
They know His voice.
Your mind has been running wild. You feel out of control and chaotic and isolated. You’ve been pursuing the Lord and ardently listening, but you’re paralyzed with fear that you’re going to miss God’s will. I find myself there too often. My obsession with God’s will can impede my pursuit of God. When my pursuit of God…
What we know.
Have you been trying to manufacture a set of circumstances in your life to make it look more like you planned? Maybe you’re telling yourself if you make X happen, life will be more peaceful, more joyous. Or maybe you thought life would look a certain way today, and it doesn’t. And you’re having trouble letting go. The job…
Fullness in Christ.
I write to remind you to stop keeping score. You are living under the code of grace and grace alone. This performance-driven, you-earn-it, you-deserve-it record you’re keeping has been obliterated. You no longer function in a framework where you get what you deserve. What you did or didn’t do today has no effect on how God sees you….
