To keep the weight of sin off, step on the spiritual scales everyday. 

Don’t let bitterness, fear, or anger about the direction our modern culture is going make you useless to God and to the people around you. You have been placed where you are for such a time as this.

Keep producing works for God. They might not “catch on” or be popular now, but God may use them later on for His glory and the good of man.

Whatever it is, look to Jesus.

Someone has said that the good Lord didn’t create anything without a good purpose – but mosquitoes come close. Rather a strange thought, but a timeless one. Not about mosquitoes, but all the things that mosquitoes might come to represent.

A caterpillar is the larva of a butterfly. When the former becomes the latter, scientists call that process metamorphosis. When Jesus was “transfigured” in Matthew 17:2, that term comes from the Greek word that gives us the English “metamorphosis.” James, Peter, and John witnessed this amazing event, and like them, it should stun us, too. 

 In John 3:16, we see the greatest expression of love, the greatest act of love ever recorded, and the greatest heart of love the world his ever seen.

“When a man’s ways please the Lord, He maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.” Proverbs 16:7. Because the king was walking with the Lord, the fear of the Lord filled the nation and the country round about Judah.

Walking according to Ephesians 4:32 won’t make us Christians, but consistently refusing or failing to walk that way makes others wonder whether we are Christians.