You do not trust God until you have something for which to trust God, until there is a need you cannot meet, or strength you cannot muster. You do not really trust God until your great store of courage and larger supply of valor prove altogether insufficient and inadequate for the trial.
Category Archives: Devotional
From One Rhetorical Question to Another
The rhetorical question is the surest way to avoid the truth—or to state it. I am like any one else, sometimes confident and wise, sometimes feeling threatened and defensive.
The Most Unusual of Places
There is a gift I would like to receive this Christmas that I am certain will be deferred—perhaps not forever—but for now. What WILL be there, as it has been for so many years, is “the gift of singleness.” I cannot say I will open this package with joy, but I will open it. I […]