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.

My Shepherd knows all my wants and needs, and He has gone to prepare a place for me (Jn. 14:1-6). What more could I possibly desire?

No true believer will deliberately make a conscious decision to slip away from his or her relationship with God. But we can drift away a little bit at a time, like an unsecured boat.

Malachi 4:4-6 “Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.” 

What difference does it make that baptism is an ordinance? To borrow an expression from Paul the Apostle, “Much every way.”