Matthew 6:25-34 Click here to listen to today's devotional To follow Christ is to abandon the need you have to control life. That’s not just harder than it sounds. It's something a lot of us don't want to acknowledge Now, most of us don’t want to control everything, just enough control to feel safe. We want to know how tomorrow will go before tomorrow gets here. We want guarantees and few surprises. But faith doesn't promise that kind of life. Jesus invites us into something deeper, and, strangely, something lighter. “Do not worry about tomorrow,” he says. Not because tomorrow doesn’t matter or because there's nothing worrisome in the world. But because your life is held in God's love, which is, thankfully, stronger than your managing abilities. Worry is often control dressed up as wisdom or conc ern. We carry fear about what is out of our control. In the worry process, we mull over conversations that haven’t happened. We try to solve problems God has not aske...
Jeremiah 33:1-3 Click here to listen to today's devotional We don't say it aloud, but there is a strange temptation many of us have. We quietly assume that we have finished learning God’s word. We scan through familiar passages. Maybe we memorize verses that carried us through harder seasons. But our comfy approach to scripture only allows us to imagine truths that feel useful, comforting, or even manageable. And, whether we realize it or not, we start believing that we have heard all God has to say. The Bible, though, is a living invitation to life. Not a closed-book discussion. Listen again to what the prophet Jeremiah heard: “Call to me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.” The promise was not that everything would become so obvious all of a sudden to God's people in that moment. The promise is that God is still speaking, still revealing, still unfolding mercy and wisdom in ways you have not imagined yet. There is ...