It’s Our Choice

Habakkuk 3:17 Though the fig tree does not blossom and there is no fruit on the vines, though the yield of the olive fails and the fields produce no food, though the flock is cut off from the fold and there are no cattle in the stalls, yet I will [choose to] rejoice...

The One Who Truly Knows Us

Nahum 1:7 The Lord is good, a strength and stronghold in the day of trouble; He knows [He recognizes, cares for, and understands fully] those who take refuge and trust in Him.   The Lord is full of goodness. He is a wealth of everything good. He is totally worthy...

New Day, Clean Slate

Lamentations 3:22-23 It is because of the Lord’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed because His [tender] compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great and beyond measure is Your faithfulness.   The Lord’s lovingkindness is what...

A Living Sacrifice

Romans 6:13 Do not go on offering members of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness. But offer yourselves to God [in a decisive act] as those alive [raised] from the dead [to a new life], and your members [all of your abilities—sanctified, set apart] as...

Called To Freedom

Galatians 5:13 For you, my brothers, were called to freedom; only do not let your freedom become an opportunity for the sinful nature (worldliness, selfishness), but through love serve and seek the best for one another.   We have been called to the freedom that...