Tagged with "sovereignty"

• The Big Picture

  God is painting on a canvas bigger than we can see.

• Appointments

  From a guarded sycamore tree to a ram in the thicket and a great fish in the sea, Scripture reveals a God who orchestrates divine appointments—arranging people, places, and moments for redemption.

• It’s About You

  A quiet surrender to the truth that life is not ultimately about us, but about the glory of God and His redeeming work.

• In the Margins

  A reflection on Scripture, time, and the holy space before the beginning—where God already knew every moment of our lives.

• Margins

  What is your favorite place in the Bible? Mine may surprise you.

• No Excuse

  God’s revelation is not hidden — it’s everywhere. Creation declares His power, and conscience confirms His nature. The question is not whether He’s spoken, but whether we’ll respond.

• Not So Small After All

  Beneath the vastness of the heavens, I discovered that humanity is not insignificant but deeply loved — called by name by the One who set every star in place.

• From It or Through It

  When the king renamed them, he thought he was erasing them. He wasn't.

• God's Plan

  A reflection on the road of life, where every event becomes preparation for what lies ahead in God's unfolding plan.

• The Work of His Hands

  Like a craftsman with a vision, God sees us not for our flaws but for the purpose He lovingly designed. Even our dents and dings are part of the story.

• From Ashes to Glory

  When the holy place is defiled and left in ruins, God does not abandon it—He rebuilds His dwelling within us with greater glory than before.

• In His Presence

  Like an ant sensing only vibrations of a passing shadow, we often miss the nearness of God.

• Held on Every Side

  As mountains encircle Jerusalem, God’s presence surrounds His people — corporately and personally — now and forever.

• If God Is Everywhere

  God's omnipresence means we are never outside His presence or purposes. This meditation explores identity, rest, and belonging in a God who is always near.

• The Gospel in the Grass

  Creation proclaims God’s provision, beauty, and care — inviting us to trust the One who tends both the earth and our lives.

• Heading Home

  The psalms teach us that faith does not move in straight lines—from despair to trust, and from trust to being led again toward God Himself.

• The Sanctuary

  A meditation on entering the presence of God, where His holiness reorders our understanding, humbles our pride, and brings clarity that cannot be found anywhere else.

• The Power of Presence

  Israel’s victories were never secured by strength or strategy, but by the light of God’s presence — a truth that still exposes the danger of self-reliance.

• A Theology of Weakness

  God is not threatened by human weakness, nor surprised by failure.

• The LORD Is My Shepherd

  Psalm 23 is not a wish or a sentiment, but a declaration of settled reality. In valley and pasture alike, the Shepherd’s presence — not the absence of danger — is the source of comfort and confidence.

• Open My Eyes

  We can perceive almost nothing of reality — which is exactly why seeking Him first is not naïve but essential.

• All Things

  Life does not always come together in ways we can understand. Faith holds to the promise that God is at work even when meaning feels hidden, and nothing is ultimately wasted.

• What About Judas?

  How close can a person be to Jesus — and still miss Him? Judas’ life confronts our assumptions about proximity, ministry, and surrender.

• Still Waiting

  When anxiety pulls me into endless what-ifs, Psalm 39:7 calls me back to the only secure ground: My hope is in You.

• Unpacking Holiness

  A reflection on the movement of God’s holiness — from wilderness fire to indwelling Spirit — and the mercy found in His nearness.

• Waves

  A meditation on Exodus 20 and the unseen waves our choices send forward — into our families, our futures, and generations we will never know.

• Seek First

  What does it really mean to seek first the Kingdom of God? A reflection on priority, focus, righteousness by faith, and the promise that the Father will provide what we truly need.

• Created In His Image

  A reflection on whether the cross was an interruption in the story of creation or the meaning creation was always built to reveal.

• Complete Protection

  David's opening cry in Psalm 18 reveals a layered portrait of God's protection—strength within, stability beneath, defense around, and victory ahead—awakening love as the only fitting response.

• A Big God

  In the vastness of a universe held within God, even our sin and suffering are not beyond His presence—inviting us to trust that He can transform what once tormented us into instruments of glory.

• Falling Into His Grip

  What felt like collapse became rescue. In confinement, I discovered that when I fell, I had not been hurled headlong — God was still holding my hand.

• God's Got This

  When progress feels slow and God seems silent, Deuteronomy reminds us that His promises unfold little by little. The pauses are not abandonment. They are preparation.

• Never Told Why

  Trust is not found in understanding the script. It is staying in the story with God when you cannot see the reason.

• Raise A Shout

  Psalm 100 reveals a progression in worship — from celebration to service to intimacy — built on the unchanging goodness of God.

• Showers of Blessing

  The Psalms repeatedly call God’s people to shout in worship. True praise is not polite restraint but the joyful declaration that our victorious King reigns.

• Breathless!

  Psalm 148 erupts with unrestrained praise, calling all creation to worship—and reminding us not to be outdone by rocks.

• That They Will Know

  God’s work in our lives is not ultimately about us — it is about making His name known so that all will see that He is LORD.

• If Only...

  We often wish we could rewrite parts of our past, yet God, in His sovereignty, works through even our regrets to accomplish His purposes and shape our lives.

• In His Hands

  God claims both what is given and what lies beyond it. In the tension between possession and sovereignty, we find quiet confidence that even what feels chaotic remains firmly in His hands.

• Something is Missing

  When our response to God becomes rushed and restrained, we miss the fullness of what His presence invites — an engaged, wholehearted expression of awe, remembrance, and worship.

• I Am Loved

  For most of my life I understood God's love as agape — unconditional, selfless, sacrificial. But Psalm 42:8 introduced me to hesed: a love God has commanded of Himself, bound not by obligation but by nature. He could no more cease to love us than water could cease to be wet.

• Beyond Knowing

  Psalm 136 repeats 'His lovingkindness is everlasting' twenty-six times. A meditation on why the repetition is the point — and what happens when you stop counting and let it pull you under.

• Good Gifts

  What does it mean when the Giver becomes the gift? A meditation on Psalm 16:5–6, and what we miss when we seek only what God can do rather than God Himself.

• Selah

  Selah appears seventy-four times in Scripture and no one agrees on what it means. But God doesn't do something seventy-four times just because. A reflection on what happens when we stop rushing past it.

• A Razor Blade

  We approach Scripture with conclusions already settled, marking only what supports us. A meditation on what happens when we let God's Word divide soul from spirit — and question what we thought we already knew.

• Scars That Birthed Nations

  The nations that conspired to wipe Israel from memory share a common origin: someone who decided God's promise needed a nudge. Edom, Ishmael, Moab — each born from a scar of impatience. And yet, God remains the only hope of deliverance.

• On Amazon and Life

  A review of his Amazon cart — butter dish, heating pad, Bible pens — opens into an account of homelessness, jail, divorce, and rebuilding on $200 a month. God is providing. It's a long, slow crawl. But I've already won.

• What Fear?

  When the police knocked with an arrest warrant, every fear he had imagined came true at once. What followed — 653 days in a cell, divorce, homelessness — brought something unexpected: an identity, a relationship, and power. God isn't a path out of addiction. He IS the path.

• Why Fear?

  Fear multiplies in imagined futures, but faith finds its footing in a single, steady truth: God is for me.

• Not So Small Voice

  God's still small voice is real — but it's only one register. Psalm 29 describes a voice that shatters cedars, makes mountains skip, and strips forests bare. The universe has never stopped worshipping. We're the only part of creation that did.

• Cherubim

  A word study on k'ruvim — what cherubim actually are in Hebrew Scripture — and why God's barrier at Eden was not only judgment but mercy: closing the way to permanent existence in sin to preserve the possibility of redemption.

• First Sin

  Genesis 3:6 contains a four-word grenade: 'who was with her.' Adam was present for the entire temptation — and chose silence. A close reading of the Fall and what it reveals about the man who watched.

• What About Joseph?

  A close look at Matthew 1:19 — the just man who chose to absorb shame rather than expose Mary, before he ever knew the truth. One of the most quietly heroic moments in the New Testament.

• Awesome God

  A meditation on Psalm 97 and the God we've domesticated — clouds, fire, mountains melting like wax. Then Psalm 37:24: ADONAI holds the stumbler by the hand. The distance between those two verses is the whole gospel.

• A Question of Authorship

  Every occurrence of 'These are the generations of' in Genesis is a colophon — a scribal signature identifying the eyewitness of what came before it. That structure appears eleven times. It means Genesis had seven original authors, each writing firsthand. Which raises the only remaining question: who was present to witness Genesis 1:1? The only option available to us is God Himself.

• Sabbath

  The shift from Saturday to Sunday wasn't commanded by Scripture. It was driven by anti-Jewish sentiment, Gentile accommodation, and a fourth-century imperial edict. But the deeper problem isn't which day — it's that most of the Western church has abandoned Sabbath entirely while telling itself it transferred it. God built the seventh day into the fabric of creation. He designed it to produce something.

• The Stars

  Three words. That's what Genesis gives the stars — after lavishing a whole paragraph on the sun and moon. Ancient Near Eastern cultures built entire religious systems around stellar worship. God gave them a footnote. The brevity is almost certainly intentional, and it says something pointed about the things we've spent millennia obsessing over.