Daily Devotionals for the Rest of Us
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Jesus said, "Blessed are the meek."How is that even possible?
Jesus asked blind Bartimeus a question.What if he asked you the same question?
Just thinking about them makes you smile and warms your heart.Who are those people in your life? Thank God for them.
At first reading, James seems to think so.Maybe there's a doubt that opens door and a doubt that shuts them.
Discernment is hard when every path is a gift and every path is a loss.
When we confess our sins, we're not telling God anything God doesn't know.But sometimes in saying it out loud and having it heard we discover what we didn't know, that grace is real even for the likes of us.
We're not promised a way to avoid grief, but rather, comfort in the midst of it.
Post-menopausal Sarah laughter when she heard guests promise her a son. It was all too ridiculous.Until it wasn't.
Abraham cleared a space for his unexpected visitors.How often do we make a space for what God wants to say to us and give to us?
When we're good. When we're bad. When we succeed. When we fail.We always have a home.
Does being poor in spirit mean thinking that you're not worth much? If so, how can that be blessed?
Jesus knew it was time to step forward and begin his ministry when he received the word of John's imprisonment.How do you know it's time when something is stirring in your own soul?
For Paul, the Lord's table was meant to be a gathering that reflected the values of God's kingdom.How are we doing?
God promised the children of Israel just enough provision for each day. Some of them had a hard time trusting that.What about us?
After all of the miracles of liberation, Israel still thrown a first class pity party.What God does next is pretty surprising.
Ministers have prayed for God to give victory to football teams.Maybe that's not the deepest prayer we can pray.
Gov Felix was fascinated by Paul and made sure that even in prison, Paul was treated well.And yet, he just kept missing the point.Sometimes we have to quit talking about faith and get busy living it.
Sometimes we pray earnestly for healing, for resolution, for something to be different.And nothing changes.What do we do then?
The boy did everything wrong. He was selfish, and foolish, and made really bad choices. Yet his daddy couldn't wait for him to come home.Some days it seems we do everything wrong. Sometimes we're selfish and foolish, and we make really bad
Jesus is clear.No matter what we do or how far we wander, God never stops looking for us, not to punish us but to love us.
When I called out in hte night, disabled by injury, my mom was there.So it is when we feel held back by our fear, the weariness of our struggle, the weight of our sadness, or the shame that is like breath to us, God is there.
Sometimes we can see the results of our work.Sometimes we can see that the work just isn't working.Sometimes we can't see anything at all.In all of these things, we are called to be faithful.
Paul wrote that we should bear one another's burdens. Sometimes it can be hard to let someone else know that we're carrying burdens, much less to let them help us.
When his business boomed he didn't bother to ask any question deeper than how he could protect all of his money.Jesus reminds us that the intentionality of faith extends to all parts of our lives.
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