“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland”—Isaiah 43:18-19 (NIV). Stepping outside in the waning daylight, the flickering of fireflies in the evening breeze summoned …
I like a clean house. But, as I grow older, it seems to take me longer. What used to take me three to four hours on a Saturday morning, now takes all day—and then some. Create in me a new, clean heart, O God, filled with clean thoughts and right desires.—Psalm 51:10 (TLB) I attribute …
“But first the Son of Man must suffer terribly and be rejected by this generation”—Luke 17:25 (NLT). Opening the email from a magazine, my heart raced. Had my devotional been accepted for publication? I was feeling confident until I read their rejection. After reading the form letter, including a long list of possible reasons my …
It’s true, when we become new creatures in Christ, our sins are forgiven and removed “as far from us as the east is from the west.”
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