Because our comprehension of God’s mastery can be difficult for us to understand and because God is all knowing, just, and good, we must try to see the hard things we encounter in life from God’s point of view and trust Him.

You will persevere to the end because God will keep you to the end.

Perhaps you’ve been an outcast of a sort, and you can fully understand what it means to move down.

In chapters 61 and 62 the prophet Isaiah uses poetic language to describe God’s royal city, shinning and blazing from the fuel of righteousness and salvation. He blends this image with others so that, from our perspective, Isaiah’s vision of the future merges with history…

God is holy. “Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them. You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy …,” Leviticus 19:2, ESV What is God’s holiness? Often we tend to limit holiness to God’s…

“Would it be worth another’s suffering for you to know God?” This question unsettled me during one of my 2:00 a.m. can’t sleep, praying times. The next morning I saw lots of tweets like this: Though some of the facts about exactly where and when…

Devotional by Pamela EasonPainting, “The Prayer,” by Adolphe Bouguereau Great-grandmother Fannie Lee, on my dad’s side, died in 1968. I was nine. She died long before positive thinking became popular in the late 1990’s and five years after Joel Osteen was born. She was “laid…

Unrelenting wild beasts that take your soul; Leviathan, the great impenetrable and unhookable, multiple-headed sea monster that generates world-wide havoc; poisonous arrows that sink into your skin; the mighty, muscular, illusive, Behemoth who eats and eats everything in sight and fears nothing; the roar of…

There is a suffering that is sometimes thrust upon the blameless, and we seem to be at a loss for reasons to explain it.

“For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, ‘In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.’ But you were unwilling” (Isaiah 30:15, ESV). Our Belief and God’s Glory: Christians are called believers. We…