Have you ever had one of those days or experienced a season in life where you are pursuing God and you feel nothing? It’s so hard when you want to feel close to God or feel His presence and there just seems to be nothing there. Today was one of those days for me. God showed me many years ago in a journal that I wrote in 2005 the following truth: “Who God is and His love for me is not dependent on or determined by my feelings or lack of feelings. Praise God that He never changes – He is constant. And His love never changes – there is…
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You can go to almost any pet store that sells mice and see a mouse wheel in the mouse’s cage. The mouse loves the wheel and runs and runs on it to get exercise since it is cooped up in a cage. The mouse doesn’t realize it is running and really not going anywhere. I recently have felt like a mouse on a mouse wheel – running and running and getting nowhere. Let me explain. The wheel is an analogy for the things we turn to to meet our needs and satisfy our longings. Some examples might be alcohol, drugs, food, self-mutilation, infidelity, or even sleep. So often these things we turn to…
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I was watching the movie “The Avengers” for the first time several weeks ago with some friends. I am very movie illiterate and hadn’t seen hardly any of the super hero movies. I was struck by one phrase in the movie – when the nemesis comes out before a massive crowd of people and commands them to bow to him. He proclaims “YOU WERE MADE TO BOW!” I have been thinking about that ever since and how each of us on this earth was made by our Creator to bow to Him alone! Our purpose is to bow and to worship Him! It is not to worship the created or…
