by Kathy Collard Miller | Aug 22, 2012 | demands, knowing and understanding God, marriage, obedience, Trust, voice of God, worry
Some time ago I posted about Jesus’s question to Paul, “‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads’” (Acts 26:14 NASB).(If you want to check out that post, click on goads.)That verse and what...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Aug 20, 2012 | courage, encouragement, heaven, hope, hopelessness, obedience, temptation, trials
The older I become, the more aware I am of the passage of time. Not just, “Wow, this year is going so fast. It’s already August.” But the perspective of looking at my five-year-old grandson, Raffi, and thinking that some day (if the Lord tarries),...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Aug 1, 2012 | anxiety, assumptions, beliefs, demands, dependence, obedience, surrender
Image: FreeDigitalPhotos.netOur wonderful God is not a “one size fits all” kind of God. Sometimes I forget that and think things like:Well, God responded to my friend that way, so He’ll respond the same way to me.Well, God is “the same...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jul 23, 2012 | faithfulness, forgiveness, grace, gratitude, obedience
Image: FreeDigitalPhotos.netI just finished reading Jesus + Nothing = Everything by Tullian Tchividjian. I highly recommend his book. His main emphasis is on how to live in “grace” throughout your Christian life, not just at the point of salvation.He...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jun 21, 2012 | dependence, God's questions, guidance, humility, knowing and understanding God, lies, obedience, pruned, repentance, sovereignty, SPSS, surrender, truth
Do you sometimes recognize in yourself a resistant heart to the Lord? Or maybe it’s even as strong as a hard heart? I know that I’ve been convicted of that and I’m grieved by it. At the time, it’s seems impossible to change my heart. At times,...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jun 13, 2012 | deception, holiness, obedience, quiet times, self-protective sinful strategies, SPSS, temptation, way of escape
Free images from FreeDigitalPhotos.netToday, we’re coming to the final two self-protective sinful strategies of the Edomites and possibly us! They are wisdom and strength. Here’s Obadiah 8-9: “Will I not on that day,” declares the Lord,“ Destroy wise men...
