Stability of mind and faith allows us to be controlled not by our changing feelings and circumstances, but rather by truth which directs how we walk daily before the Lord and others.
‘Incompetent’. A disparaging word. Like ‘mediocre’, ‘feeble’, ‘lacklustre’. Who wants to be thought of like that?
The Bible talks less of the fruit we should be putting into our bodies and more about the fruit we should be displaying in our lives.
I puzzle on the ways of God, His gift of grace for one so flawed.
What we are and do now is just like a seed or a bulb: plain, understated, easy to dismiss. But the potential is worth noting!
When we restrictively try to protect what we love without allowing for growth, we end up strangling and suffocating the very thing we are trying to hold on to.
Even if you loathe reality TV as heartily as I do, you will have struggled not to notice the many headlines surrounding this year’s “I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here”.
J. C. Ryle once expressed his belief that “good hymns are an immense blessing to the church.
