8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts,    neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth,    so are my ways higher than your ways    and my thoughts than your thoughts. (Isaiah 55:8-9 ESV) We can find ourselves in a state of thinking that we know the right way, the better … Read more

3 Trust in the Lord, and do good;    dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.[a]4 Delight yourself in the Lord,    and he will give you the desires of your heart. 5 Commit your way to the Lord;    trust in him, and he will act. (Psalm 37:3-5 ESV) Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart. We too … Read more

12 Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. 13 And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.[a] 14 The natural person does not accept the things … Read more

37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. (Matthew 22:37 ESV) What does it really mean to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind? Really consider … Read more

24 By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, 25 choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. 26 He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward. (Hebrews 11:24-25 ESV) Consider, what … Read more