What if God is looking for people who have been broken enough by life and mended enough by mercy that they know they are hopeless without God?
God desires and delights to be with us in a comprehensive fashion, not as a peripheral help. He is looking for people who will pray, “Have me!” rather than just plead, “Help me!”
I receive your deliverance from “who am I” and into your eternal word, “I will be with you.”
Real faith most often moves from no to maybe to yes. It’s why God never stops sowing into people and also why we must never stop.
What the elders need more of in their lives is the young; and what the young need more of in their lives are the elders.
We forget that we are the burning bush—ordinary human beings illuminated with the fiery love of God.
I see in this burning bush the great mystery of holiness: ordinary human beings filled with the supernatural fire of the Holy Spirit.
Sometimes it takes a long season in the wilderness to learn the difference between one’s importance and their worth.
When you are doing your best to follow Jesus and it feels like you are exiled from your life, you are not being punished. You are being prepared.
When the will of God is not carried out according to the ways of God, it leads to the wilderness of God.
This is how we get from Plan B back to Plan A: surrender.
Plan A is always more creative, always more costly, always more risky, and always more faith-full.
