Love shouldn't be ignorant or aimless - it should be informed and intentional. That's why the prayer is for love to 'abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight'. With divine knowledge and insight, we're better able to love people, to discern the needs around us, to understand who needs love and how we can love people best.
Wisdom
January’s Lesson: Never Compare Your Chapter 1 to Someone Else’s Chapter 30
January's Lesson: Never Compare Your Chapter 1 to Someone Else's Chapter 30. This post is the first in a new series based on the main lessons I've learnt in 2020. Keeping up the habit I started in 2018, I write down one lesson that I've learnt each day. Then, each month I look back … Continue reading January’s Lesson: Never Compare Your Chapter 1 to Someone Else’s Chapter 30
Having a Healthy Thought Life, Part 3: Waiting
Having a Healthy Thought Life Part 3: Waiting. I’m delighted to be hosting a new series of guest posts by my wise and wonderful wife, Lucy. It’s called ‘Having A Healthy Thought Life’, and over the next few weeks Lucy will be sharing the content she wrote for a small group Bible study series. I … Continue reading Having a Healthy Thought Life, Part 3: Waiting
Choose to be Content
Choose to be Content. “I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through Him who … Continue reading Choose to be Content
Be Steadfast
Be Steadfast. “You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in You.” (Isaiah 26:3) This was a key verse for me last year when trust was my one word for the year. It comes back to me now because I think it’s important to hear these words … Continue reading Be Steadfast
A peace like no other
A peace like no other. “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” (John 14:27) Welcome to May everyone. A new month, but not much has changed has it? … Continue reading A peace like no other
Take Heart!
Take Heart! “In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33) We certainly have trouble in this world, don’t we? We had trouble enough before coronavirus came along, what with persecution and pollution, conflict and corruption, human trafficking and humanitarian disasters, but now it’s gone … Continue reading Take Heart!
Remain in Me
Remain in Me. “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.” (John 15:5) Staying connected is so important in this time. I think we’ve all heard that and agree on it. We … Continue reading Remain in Me
Leave room in your thoughts for God
Leave room in your thoughts for God. “In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his thoughts there is no room for God.” (Psalm 10:4) I’d never noticed this verse before. I can’t say that Psalm 10 is one of my favourites, but when I read it the other … Continue reading Leave room in your thoughts for God
A Sound Mind
A Sound Mind. “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” (2 Timothy 1:7, NKJV) Fear, selfishness and worry seem to be the hallmarks of our global society at the moment, evident all around the world and in the vast … Continue reading A Sound Mind
MJH Musings 