The joy and peace available to us are not just pacifiers until Jesus returns. They are eternal realities brought into the temporal realm.
God’s Word puts something in our mouths and something in our hands at the same time. Its not an either-or scenario but a both-and reality.
Though it costs nothing to receive the love of God, following Jesus, and becoming like him, costs everything.
We are told not just to seek God, but to call on him. While calling on the Lord can look like “come near,” it can also look like saying “help.”
People are not just designed to know God, they’re desperate to.
Listening is an active process that brings what is heard to our attention. We are always hearing, but not always listening.
Though we may desire for everything to be resolved in a moment, we are not the architects of our own formation. We are the clay. He is the potter.
God’s love is a reflection of his character—not ours. His heart toward us does not change. His love changes us.
God is clearly the initiator, but the invitation list is exclusive: it is an invitation to the thirsty, to the ones with no money, the ones who are desperate.
