An obsession with the self — evident by excessive use of the pronouns I and me — is responsible for the defeat and dismay we experience each day in a fallen world awaiting Christ’s return. Keith Wilson notes that Hitler’s speech that plunged Germany into war with Poland in 1939 contained the personal pronoun “I” 78 times. We too can easily be carried away by our obsession with the self. Yet we attain victory over the self through the power of the Holy Spirit.
How do we trust God? How do we follow him not just in the good times but in the bad times to? Why does God allow suffering? “Everything under heaven belongs to me.. says the Read more…
Chapter 38 of the book of Job is just at taste of God’s first rebuke. In it He takes Job through the creative process of Genesis, and with the use of irony, sarcasm and a Read more…
In Job’s darkest moments he expresses a heart that yearns for a redeemer, and yes, God will deliver.