Control or Growth?
Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails. – PROVERBS 19:21
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Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails. – PROVERBS 19:21
Who am I that I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt? – EXODUS 3:11
Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. – EPHESIANS 5:21
Go, for he is a chosen vessel of Mine to bear My name before Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel. – ACTS 9:15
To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable:
Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.”
Ask the Lord of the harvest … to send out workers into his harvest field. – LUKE 10:2
In our journey through life, as we follow the Lord’s call, Christians are a sent people. Before his ascension into heaven, Jesus told us, through the apostles, to go into the world with a gospel that has the power to change lives. These marching orders have had a profound impact on the history of the world.
He had to be made like them, fully human in every way ... — Hebrews 2:17
In the Christmas song “Hark! the Herald Angels Sing” we might recognize the words “veiled in flesh the Godhead see; hail the incarnate Deity.” And if we’re in a thoughtful mood, we might wonder at the mystery of the Word becoming flesh, of God becoming one of us.
But as for me and my household, we will serve (avodah) the Lord. – JOSHUA 24:15
Avodah. One Hebrew word. Three simultaneous meanings.
The concept of “Avodah” means work, worship and service. Whatever it is – our work, our worship, or our service if led by the Holy Spirit, is honoring to God.
May the favor of the Lord our God rest on us; establish the work of our hands for us – yes, establish the work of our hands.
— PSALM 90:17
Trading a daunting night of work for life-giving time with the Lord.