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The Lord is my shepherd. — Psalm 23:1Sheep do not need to figure out how to get a shepherd to lead. On the contrary, shepherds figure out how to get the sheep to follow.That is a comfort to me. I want to follow God. Sometimes I wonder, "Am I doing the right thing? Am I doing what God wants me to do?" But God specializes in working out His plans in frail humanity. Jesus rose from the dead and then left the earth! Yes, I understand that His Spirit is here. But stop and think about it. He left the…

There are those who rebel against the light … — Job 24:13In the light, we see things as they really are. It’s impossible to hide in the light. If we feel the need to hide, then the light is not our friend; it is our enemy. Why do we hide? Because we do not trust the One who is light. We believe that He will see our stains and mistake those stains for us.The darkness is an illusion that fools only us. God sees through the darkness just as plainly as He sees through the light. There is no real…

Send some men to explore the land … — Numbers 13:2This is an invitation from God to see our world through eyes of faith. God wasn’t looking for His people to just see the size of the mountain; He was inviting them to measure the miracle.Are we surrounded with problems? Maybe God is inviting us to laugh along with Abraham who laughed when he discovered he would father a child at age 100. Laugh because with God nothing is impossible. Maybe God is inviting us to worship along with Gideon who snuck down to the camp of the Midianites and…

Commentary By the looks of things, it seems that compromise on the contentious issue of immigration is unlikely, if not impossible. The House’s position has been hard-line: We have to stop illegal immigration before we even consider ways we could process illegal immigrants into America properly. Some members have even demanded the wholesale deportation of all illegal immigrants, which would virtually stop the American economy in its tracks. Read more.

And he struck down a huge Egyptian. Although the Egyptian had a spear in his hand, Benaiah went against him with a club. He snatched the spear from the Egyptians’s hand and killed him with his own spear. — 2 Samuel 23:21 Why does God give us impossible challenges? Because any other kind are – well – boring. Benaiah could have looked at the club in his own hand. But instead, he looked at the spear in the Egyptian’s hands. This reminds me of Ashley, a cat we owned years ago. She was a feisty creature who preferred biting…