This parable will help us understand what it feels like to be lost and how God responds to that feeling by always trying to bring us home.
How to go from apathetic to inspired.
Building a relationship with God means that we have a lifelong opportunity to start over every day
Building self-discipline is what gives us the ability to bridge the gap between aspiration and victory.
When we are insecure, it can be easy to feel like we are a “nobody going nowhere.”
Often, the challenge that I face is that I get inspired to want to make a difference, but don’t realize that I first must allow God to change me.
With insecurity, God never responds with criticism. He responds with a purpose to live for something beyond themselves.
There are many things that aim to undermine our faith: our guilt, different diagnoses, depression, anxiety, fear, and various circumstances. God wants to build our faith and confidence to be so strong it can handle anything thrown our way.
We have an important choice to make every day, and that choice is whether we will choose God, or choose humanism and self-reliance to help us handle the demands and responsibilities of life.
Jesus had a mission! Everything he did in his life fit into the mission God had for him. Do you know your mission? Jesus accomplished his mission. Are you accomplishing that mission?
We are living in a time of fear-inducing chaos, when darkness is rising. We must embrace our responsibility to God and our neighbors to bring the light.
Conquer is a word descriptive of but rarely used to define Jesus. It means “to defeat an enemy, or take control or possession of a foreign land.” In this sense, Jesus comes as the light to conquer a world filled with darkness.