by Kathy Collard Miller | Jul 18, 2012 | courage, joy, purposes, repentance, surrender
In our last post about a resistant or hardened heart, we read of Job’s repentance (Job 40:3-5). If we hadn’t already read through the end of this biblical book, we would expect that now God would say, “Good job, Job! Your repentance is complete. Now...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jun 29, 2012 | forgiveness, knowing and understanding God, pruned, repentance, self-protective sinful strategies, SPSS, surrender, temptation
Image courtesy of FreeDigitalPhotos.netFinally! We hear Job speak! Job 40:3-5 says, Then comes Job’s reply, Then Job answered the Lord and said, “Behold, I am insignificant; what can I reply to You?I lay my hand on...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jun 27, 2012 | God's questions, heart change, humility, knowing and understanding God, motives, self-protective sinful strategies, surrender
Image courtesy of FreeDigitalPhotos.netAs we continue to move through the book of Job to help us resist a resistant or hardened heart, we find God’s next comments to Job centered on His formation of animals. He started with His creation of earth and the heavens....
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jun 25, 2012 | God's questions, knowing and understanding God, motives, perfectionism, pride, repentance, self-protective sinful strategies, sovereignty, SPSS, surrender
Image courtesy of FreeDigitalPhotos.netIn my last post, I began talking about a resistant or hardened heart which is based upon questioning God’s transcendence, power, and knowledge. And overall, is a questioning of His sovereignty as we saw in God’s...
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 6, 2012 | holiness, humility, pride, self-protective sinful strategies, surrender
Let’s continue our reading of the book of Obadiah to find another kind of self-protective sinful strategy. Verse 4 says, “‘Though you build high like the eagle, Though you set your nest among the stars, From there I will bring you down,’...
