The Nothing Blog

Battle weary? We should never try to fight our spiritual battles alone. Our unseen enemy is vicious. We need to pray to God to step in and fight for us. He will. He does. He always wins, too. But we must go to God first. It's rejuvenating to "cast all our cares on God" (1 Peter 5:7) and in faith, rest in His love for us. Right? We're revived when we're resting in God because we're finally, actually trusting God!  We're thinking clearly, our prayer life is stronger, and our priorities are right, too.  And I mean, it's absolutely exhausting and stressful to be entangled in the frenzy of the devil's lies, isn't it? Not only are we battle weary from trying to resist evil in our own strength, we're totally "occupied" and distracted from " hearing our Shepherd's voice" (John 10). God's plan for us is to rest in His promises to: meet our every need (Philippians 4:19), be with us like a Mighty Warrior who defeats our ...

This sweet little guy is our grandson. His name is Jesse. He looks peaceful, doesn't he? Sure he does! He's asleep! But if he was frightened or anxious he would not be sleeping. He'd be restless and probably crying or fussing. But he's not anxious. For one thing, he trusts his parents. He trusts all those who make up his huge family, and are blessed to be his caretakers, too. He trusts the people who love him, feed him, clothe him, protect him, teach him, hug him, dance with him, read to him, and laugh loudly with him. Yes, Jesse loves to laugh. He's free to live his life out loud. He's extremely adventurous, curious, and fearless. One of the new nicknames I have for him is "Lil Houdini." He knows he's well-loved and apparently believes his caretakers will never stop their loving care of him. That's how we, as God's children, should be living; out loud and fully alive! We should have the joys and wonder of child-like faith! We should be bel...