2 months later, and it’s time for another word from the Lord. The people’s work seems to have progressed to the point where there are again priests in the Temple, studying, teaching, and keeping the law. So that’s where the Lord sends Haggai, to ask the priests about the law. He asks them about how […]
covenant experience and expectation
There’s urgency in His voice as He meets with Haggai and again prepares him to speak to the leaders and the people alike. There’s urgency in His word, as He speaks to their feeble, fearful hearts. It’s been over a month since they began rebuilding, since their steps of obedience and rightly-placed, fearing perspective began. […]
the alabaster woman
I am broken at your feet, poured out before you now I have nothing left to give so empty Yet this is where praise begins it fills the spaces between the shards of my shattered heart this is where worship comes and makes brokenness beautiful and penetrates the emptiest places in me She heard that […]
my daughter, my delight
(a paraphrase of proverbs 23.17-19, 26) Let not your heart grow restless where it sits, ill contented, envious over sinners who can go their own way by the light of their own eyes, who can run, run, run as if no one will catch them. They will be caught in fear of Him, who has […]
the music of God.
Encouragement. Over and over again, that word keeps replaying in my head, a melody needing a harmony. The Father is singing it as a song of deliverance all around me (psalm 32.7-8). Honestly, this season is a mixed bag. Joy hums her little tune into the tiniest details of life back in this place I […]
His love, my joy
Today, I found myself reading the passage that the url-link of this blog was inspired by. “I-must-decrease” comes from John 3. John testifies to a Jew who questions John’s baptism vs. Jesus’ baptism. John speaks of his joy, his joy made complete because of Jesus’ coming. And John’s joy beautifully humbles him to see Jesus once […]