I think the majority of Christians would like to escape to some safe, quiet hideaway in the mountains to keep from being tainted by all the iniquity surrounding them. Many despair, saying, “What can one Christian do about all this…
Paul often refers to himself as “the prisoner of Jesus Christ” (Ephesians 3:1). In Ephesians 4:1 he says being a prisoner of the Lord is actually his vocation, his calling! He considered this God’s gift of grace to him (Ephesians…
“And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you” (Joel 2:25). How many years did you waste before you repented…
“And Joseph made haste; for his [heart] did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there” (Genesis 43:30). This is a picture of the heart of our Savior—even toward…
Joseph’s brothers didn’t know how much they were truly loved until God used a crisis to reveal it to them. “And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Joseph opened all the storehouses…. When Jacob saw…