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February 13 - May 13, 2024
When a man is physically present but emotionally absent, a girl’s heart can feel quite hollow and helpless.
The exhausting manipulation and control it takes to protect an identity based on circumstances will crush our hearts and hide the best of who we are behind a wall of insecurity.
The Hebrew word for steadfast used in this verse is samak, which means “to brace, uphold, support.” Amazing, huh? In other words, those with minds fully braced, upheld, and supported by truth and trust in God will be kept in perfect peace.
The mind feasts on what it focuses on. What consumes my thinking will be the making or the breaking of my identity.
The most beautiful love story ever written is the one you were made to live with God.
Live from the abundant place that you are loved, and you won’t find yourself begging others for scraps of love.
Living loved is sourced in your quiet daily surrender to the One who made you.
The gravity of living in a sin-soaked world will always try to hold us back from living loved. But if we will remember to return often to our Instructor … our Creator … we will discover His loving hands still pulse to continue making us. Tweaking us. Molding us. Filling us. And daily completing the good work He began in us.
How dangerous it is when our souls are gasping for God but we’re too distracted flirting with the world to notice.
the world entices your flesh but never embraces your soul. All the while, the only love caring enough to embrace us and complete enough to fill us, waits.
He waits every day with every answer we need, every comfort we crave, every affection we’re desperate for, while we look everywhere else but at Him.
When we abide, delight, and dwell in Him, He then places within us desires that line up with His best desire for us. Therefore, He can give us whatever we ask, because we will only want what’s consistent with His best. He can fully satisfy our hearts, because they are consistent with His heart. He can promise us stability, because we’re tapped into His consistent power.
Fullness comes to us when we remember to be with Him before going out to serve Him. He wants our hearts to be in alignment with Him before our hands set about doing today’s assignment for Him.
Fix your eyes not on a worldly prize but on staying in love with Me.”
Do I walk into situations prepared with the fullness of God in me, free to look for ways to bless others? Or … Do I walk into situations empty and dependent on others to look for ways to bless me?
Being full of God’s love settles, empowers, and brings out the best of who we are. On the other hand, the more full of the flesh we are, the more we grab at anyone and anything to fill that ache for love and acceptance.
The more fully we invite God in, the less we will feel uninvited by others.
With the fullness of God, we are free to let humans be humans—fickle and fragile and forgetful.
People do affect us. But the peace of our souls is tethered to all that God is. And though we can’t predict His specific plans, the fact that God will work everything together for good is a completely predictable promise.
God will lead us, comfort us, guide us, walk with us, prepare the best for us, and continue filling us with such lavishness that we’re not just full but overflowing.
If we become enamored with something in this world we think offers better fullness than God, we will make room for it. We leak out His fullness to make room for something else we want to chase.
There aren’t many sure things in this world. But God’s love and goodness are something we can absolutely count on to be there with us … to follow us.
How tragic that when we chase something in this world, we’re actually running away from the stable trust and secure love our souls long for the most. Our souls were created to be pursued and fulfilled by God’s love and goodness. Other chases deplete us and erode our trust.
People who care more about being right than ending right prove just how wrong they were all along. Lord, let me end this the right way.
Plant beauty, grow beauty. Plant thorns, grow thorns. Time will allow for either.
Life feels impossibly risky when I’m reminded how unpredictable circumstances can shatter and forever change what I know and love about my life.
To love God is to cooperate with His grace. And since I’m so very aware of my own need for grace, I must be willing to freely give it away. Each hole left from rejection must become an opportunity to create more and more space for grace in my heart.
