This month, in our online community called Balanced and Beautiful, we have delved into the topic of balance, asking these three questions: What is balance and is achieving it even possible? Is the pursuit of balance biblical? How does God’s word make us more balanced......
Sometimes you need a little love and a little kick-in-the pants.
And isn’t this just how God’s grace works? He sheds the light of His truth through his word on to our hearts, minds, and intensions. He, then, invigorates us with His Spirit, strength, and zest to move in the right direction.
Light and Zest is after this very process in our Christian devotionals.
This is a home to writers and readers seeking Christ to shed light on their circumstances and hearts, willing to expose their minds and very lives to God’s truth found in the Bible. Read how it has rubbed upon our writers’ hearts and lives. Notice the internal and external change it can produce when one is willing to be bent. See the growth take root and the freedom bloom. Take note of the relationship between God’s Word, the dazzling striking truth, and the little lives it impacts in beautiful ways.
Recent Devotionals:
One of the best parts about forgiveness is it’s a personal process. It’s something we can do alone with God through prayer, whether the offender is dead, estranged, or never seen again. Its power can transform our hearts and change our lives—forever—with or without that specific person....
When our home catches fire, we call 911 for help. We may quickly assess, but when we realize it is taking over, there is no delay in our response. There is no sitting on it. Pondering it. Wrestling with it. Yet, when temptation starts to grip our hearts and minds, we may treat them as a favored pet, letting our mind race back to it with mental and emotional attention....
I was chewing on my own faith this past week and getting stuck on some of Jesus’ words like dry bread in the back of my throat. It was a particularly hard tenet to swallow:...
It’s a good thing I wasn’t a comedian at the time or my agent would have been furious when I decided to turn my back on sarcasm for two months as an experiment. I can imagine his hands wringing, mouth grimacing, and the berating as he pretended to remain calm. All the while him calculating how this would affect my act. But that’s the thing, I didn’t want an act anymore....
I had it in me, my old bulldog of being right. Think soft marshmallow flesh with stocky shoulders and a snarling, sputtering, toothy, aggressive need-to-be-right....
