Weekly Devotion

I was in brain fog, oblivious to my watch’s battery status, so imagine my surprise when I heard the dead-battery chime just half a mile in.

The hard part is that this kind of faith doesn’t always feel like much when you’re in the middle of a dark season.

“As we yield to the Holy Spirit, He will do the heavy lifting. He changes our character to make us more like Jesus.”

What seems like a passing comment becomes something much more. A connection. A memory awakened—a heart touched in a place that still carries both love and grief.

We carry the weight of broken promises so long that we start to assume every promise has a breaking point. We know better than to say that about God out loud.

Later, I asked her directly — “Where do you think your faith comes from?”

Temptation does not come from God. Its purpose is to pull us away—to weaken us, to distract us, to lead us into choices that ultimately bring harm, shame, or distance in our relationship with Him.

When purpose takes over, the results move from the talent of man to the realm of the Divine. We see this “Divine” perfection most clearly…

Paul didn’t get his thorn removed. He got something better. He got the reminder that the God of the universe was personally present in his weakness.

God’s kingdom sums up everything a Christian longs for and Corinthians 13 describes this as a world characterized by faith, hope, and love. If our earthly world was built on only these three principles, how much more peaceful, more beautiful, and more livable would it be than the world we’re living in right now?