• Reflect

    Working for God

    Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.Proverbs 16:3 ESV Moonlighting is frowned upon Committing sounds a lot like dedicating. Doing one thing for the sake of something else—for the cause of something else. Why does the Lord want us to commit our work to him? It seems important enough to get its own proverb—so “commit[ting] your work” can’t be an empty platitude or something that has no great significance outside of its symbolism. I think it has to mean something—it has to matter—when you commit something to the Lord. And not just anything—your work.“I am doing this for you God.” As opposed to what?“I am…

  • Fellowship,  Pray

    Fellowship can take a hike

    I went hiking with a friend and it came up while we talked that God wasn’t answering his prayers. I felt that was a bad time to tell my friend that “no” was an answer. Instead, I told him that God always has a better plan than us because he can see everything that we can’t. He knows things that we’ll never know. My friend didn’t look satisfied with that response. As we continued to hike, the terrain became so rocky and jagged that the trail we were on became very hard to see. We stopped and took our bearings. We had no idea where to go next. We could…