We looked at trusting God, now let’s talk about obeying God. I think some people think obeying God is going to be hard, that He is going to ask them to do difficult things. Usually unconsciously they think they are not good at obeying God because they don’t know what He wants them to do other than “be better”. It is easy to feel like we come up short because we know we have so many areas that we wish we were better about. Actually, I don’t see anywhere in His Word that God ex

I have continued to think about trust. We all have people and things that we trust. A simple form of trust is trusting that a chair will hold you and you sit down in it. Many people trust people closest to them. They may also trust people in authority, their doctor, a lawyer…though many of us had our trust in certain institutions and people rocked in 2020! But why did/do you trust certain people? Maybe you were taught to trust the police, governmental authorities, your teache

“Trust and obey, for there's no other way to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.’ I woke up today hearing these lyrics to that old hymn. As I have continued to meditate on them today, I have been asking myself some questions: What areas of my life am I needing to just trust God and obey Him? What does that look like? Why is it easier to trust Him and obey Him sometimes and not so easy other times?  When I first started writing this blog five years ago, it seemed so easy

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