Let all that I am wait quietly before God, for my hope is in him. He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress where I will not be shaken. {PSALM 62:5-6} Do you remember the story of Lazarus and his two sisters, Martha and Mary? We find it in the book of John,…
I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living! Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord! {PSALM 27:13-14} As I sat in the waiting room I felt like a shell of a person. I looked around at the seats full of people and…
I waited patiently for the Lord; he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand. He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. {PSALM 40:1-3a}…
The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of all the earth. He never grows weak or weary. No one can measure the depths of his understanding. He gives power to the weak and strength to the powerless. Even youths will become weak and tired, and young men will fall in exhaustion. {ISAIAH 40:28-29} I stood at…
“What do you do when God is silent?” she asks me on the other end of the line. And I nod long and quiet because I have felt it deep in my bones, that kind of silence. It’s a silence like I have only heard in the forest where cars and phones and electricity and…