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People remember how we treat them. Most are willing to overlook small social gaffes and personality quirks. If we treat people harshly enough – sometimes even once – they may become cautious around us and perhaps lose trust completely. It is easy to understand why God calls us to love others. When
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It's amazing how much evidence of faith is found if we take the time to look for it. Faith is the stoic trait that doesn’t need the spotlight but supports everything else. Faith is easily overlooked, but in those who know God, it is always present. There
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Sometimes God lets us take control knowing He can work through whatever paths we decide are best traversed. That’s part of what being omnipotent and omniscience means. What’s the point giving us free will if we don’t get to make decisions once and a while? He is
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God may surprise us with His handiwork; when He does our job is to join in. We cannot know God’s plan all the time because we don’t see with the same clarity as He does. That’s why we are surprised. But when He decides to make His
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God’s plan of redemption is all about bestowing righteousness where it is not deserved. He makes all things new. He redeems our actions when we try to join Him in His work and muck things up. He is a God of redemption and restoration. Abimelech comes to Abraham with
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It is a wonder God invites us into His plan as much as He does! God can create the universe out of nothing. He can breathe perfection into existence just because He made it. There is nothing He cannot do perfectly, yet He wants us to come into His work
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God wants to uphold righteousness and be fair at the same time. He understands we cannot know every detail about our life and sometimes we must make the best decision under the circumstances we know. Fortunately, when we need guidance, He is always there to walk through life with us
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God’s grace and patience are unsurpassable. One of the most often cited expressions about history is, “Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.” If we don’t learn from the past mistakes of others, we’ll make the mistakes ourselves. Now imagine being God. How
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The plans we make apart from God’s will might seem successful, but even so they always remain at odds with God’s design. In human terms, success is often proof of the quality of the idea. God’s eyes do not evaluate the same way. Worldly success does not
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What matters is the condition of our heart once the fruit of our mistakes becomes known. Our heart is full of desire for good and desire for evil. God has seen evidence of this since the fall. What God waits to see is how we respond when our evil desires
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Even when we chose another path, God’s desire is for us to walk with Him. God has an infinite capacity to forgive. This is good, because occasionally I feel like I have an infinite capacity to sin! The only limiting factor for God’s forgiveness is our desire to
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When our heart resides with the world, it cannot simultaneously reside with God. Jesus tells us our heart cannot serve two masters. Frequently, our heart willingly pays the cost required to get the world’s stuff. But when the world has our heart, our heart doesn’t want to pay