Agree with your adversary quickly . . . —Matthew 5:25 This is a tough verse, especially for a trial lawyer. We are trained to never agree with an adversary. We are focused on exercising our “rights.” As lawyers we are not alone in this. With […]
Month: June 2010
The Strictest Discipline
If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell —Matthew 5:30 Is there something in […]
Held by the Grip of God
I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me —Philippians 3:12 Perhaps you have know folks like my old friend. I remember him as a great dreamer. Every time I would see him, he […]
Overshadowing of God’s Personal Deliverance
. . . I am with you to deliver you,’ says the Lord —Jeremiah 1:8 We have a mission to complete for our Lord. Like any good boss, God frees us from other distractions so that we can properly focus on His work. This is […]
Drawing on the Grace of God Now
We . . . plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain —2 Corinthians 6:1 Our outreach team leaves tomorrow for Guatemala. Please have them in prayer. Let’s pray they will learn anew to draw freely on the grace of God […]
Receiving Yourself in the Fires of Sorrow
. . . what shall I say? ’Father, save Me from this hour’? But for this purpose I came to this hour. ’Father, glorify Your name’ —John 12:27-28 We ask God to “make us, mold us.” He does so in the fires of sorrow. We […]
Reconciling Yourself to the Fact of Sin
This is your hour, and the power of darkness —Luke 22:53 Once, years ago, I travelled to Jakarta, Indonesia, on business. I have at no other time felt such a sense of the existence of pure evil. I have felt it other times, in fact, […]
Acquainted with Grief
He is . . . a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief —Isaiah 53:3 Most of us have “experienced” grief. We have lost a loved one or a job. We have been hurt by a word or a shun. However, we are not “acquainted […]