Desire determines your direction “You will seek Me and find Me when you seek Me with all your heart.” Jeremiah 29:13 NIV. My thoughts today are about, “priority, passion, and purpose.” You will seek what is important to you. Time and priority evidence your values. I met my wife, Gayle, […]
“Keeping your eyes on Jesus, on whom your faith depends.” Hebrews 12:2 NLT. Focus directs desire; desire decides direction; direction determines destiny. My thoughts and comments today are about “decisions and destiny.” After near mishaps, my wife, Gayle, and I agreed on a simple practice: “An automobile should never be […]
Govern your desires and you will rightly direct your life. “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness.” Matthew 5:6 NKJV. Life is driven by desires and appetites, not casual whims. Those desires can be oriented spiritually or will originate carnally. As early as the Garden of Eden, human […]
“It would not be right for us . .” Acts 6:2 NIV “The easiest or familiar is seldom the best or right thing.” My thoughts today are about the “right thing to do.” I am not thinking so much about things right or wrong, as I am about differentiating between […]
“One thing I have desired . . to dwell in the House of the Lord.” Psalm 27:4 NKJV “Careless spiritual practices are corrosive to spiritual passion.” My thoughts today are about the “status quo.” The “status quo” – a Latin term describing “a past and present state of being” – […]