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God is willing to teach us lessons when we stray; it is up to us to learn and apply them. None of us are perfect. My life is rife with mistakes I’ve made. Obviously, the goal is to minimize the frequency of mistakes. When mistakes do happen, the goal
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As our heart draws closer to the world, we suffer consequences alongside the world. We all know how the world works. The world isn’t fair. We don’t always get what we want. In fact, we don’t even always get what we work for. God is righteous and
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We all need relationship with the Lord as we find our way through life. The temptations of the world are alluring. The distractions the world offers us to take us away from God’s purpose and calling are plentiful. What God offers is a harbor among the chaos of life.
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Those who seek the Lord’s ways may stumble in sin, but they know the importance of returning to the Lord. God doesn’t expect perfection from us because He knows we cannot deliver it. God does expect repentance. He expects our heart to follow Him and He expects us
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The only person who knows what is good for us is God. His ways will not lead us astray. His ways will not fail us. His ways will bring us closer to Him and closer to the satisfaction that comes in living as He created us to live. Abram leaves
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Fear frequently leads us away from God. Isn’t that the point of faith, hope, and trust? We have many things to fear in life, but our faith, hope, and trust in God allows us to overcome fear. Fear does not need to control us. With God, we can control
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All have fallen short of the glory of God. There is nobody outside the influence of sin. We all feel temptation. We all feel the struggle to hold the line in the sand. Continuously choosing to do right is a difficult proposition. Abram takes his wife and his possessions to
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Abram walks by faith. Abram knows God has a plan, but Abram doesn’t know the plan. Abram knows a few generalities of the plan, but he doesn’t see the whole picture. When Abram moves, he moves with intention. He moves with an intention of following. God is in
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All we need to do is to hear His call and be willing to follow. That sounds so easy, until we realize God may call us to give up what we have and know and go do something else. It is a relationship built on trust. God calls; we trust
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All who walk with God can live forever with God. That is God’s big promise and it is the underlying reason for the entire message contained within the Bible. If we trust in Him, if we live according to His righteousness and His faithfulness, if we repent of our
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Society works best when we allow God to make it is His image, not when we make it in our own image. Our hearts don’t always focus on what is good for us or what is good for each other. Our hearts sometimes focus on what feels good in
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Life is best lived when we seek God’s purpose for us rather than expecting God to conform His will to our sense of purpose. I’ve walked this lesson the hard way many times in life. Rather than seeking God and waiting on His will, I forge ahead and