59 I thought about my waysand turned my steps back to your decrees.60 I hurried, not hesitatingto keep your commands. (Psalm 119:59-60 CSB) Have you ever considered how quickly you move toward something you want to do but move more slowly toward something you have to do? Our desires often overcome our responsibilities. This week was … Read more

10 Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong. (2 Corinthians 12:10) I am not good with weakness. In fact I would say I have a complete aversion to it. Part of it is that my … Read more

227 For the hearts of these peoplehave grown callous,their ears are hard of hearing,and they have shut their eyes;otherwise they might see with their eyesand hear with their ears,understand with their heartand turn,and I would heal them. (Acts 28:27 CSB) I am going to go ahead and admit something right here and now. I am stubborn. … Read more

14 But when all goes well for you, remember that I was with you. Please show kindness to me by mentioning me to Pharaoh, and get me out of this prison…..23 Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph; he forgot him. (Genesis 40:14 & 23 CSB) Joseph had done the chief cupbearer a solid that put … Read more

27 Come on, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay a hand on him, for he is our brother, our own flesh,” and his brothers agreed. 28 When Midianite traders passed by, his brothers pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him for twenty pieces of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took Joseph to Egypt. (Genesis … Read more