A Lamp to My Feet
Psalm 119:105 (ESV) “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” A lamp doesn’t light up the whole road. It lights the next few steps — and that’s all you get. For the longest time, I wanted God to show me the whole map. Where I was going, how…
The Royal Law
James 2:8 (ESV) “If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself,’ you are doing well.” James doesn’t call it good advice. He calls it the royal law — the law of the King Himself. Love your neighbor as yourself. That’s the standard, and there’s no…
Renew Your Mind
“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.” — Romans 12:2 (ESV) I wrote in my journal once: “Expecting change, when you are still doing the same thing,…
Don’t Forfeit Your Soul
“For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?” — Mark 8:36 (ESV) I know what it is to chase the world with everything in me. For years, I ran after the next high, the next escape, the next thing that promised to finally make me feel whole.…
No Condemnation
Romans 8:1 (ESV) “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” No condemnation. Not less condemnation. Not condemnation with a payment plan. None. The enemy loves to replay your worst moments on a loop — the things you did, the people you hurt, the years you wasted. And shame whispers…
