Way to the Father's Heart

It’s not easy? Granted. It’s not instant? Agreed. It’s impossible? Nope! The word of God helps us guard our mouth. The Holy Spirit reminds us. But, we do need to ask His help and depend on Him. Psalm 34 talks about the mouth in two verses. Ps. 34:13 states that one must keep the tongue from speaking evil and deceit. Well, that's the challenge! However, the key to this problem lies in the first verse of this Psalm. In Ps. 34:1 , the Psalmist says – ‘ I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth. ’ It’s tiring to attempt to hold our tongue in our own strength. We have tried and failed. Times innumerable! It only serves to show us how incapable and inefficient we are without God’s help. James 4:7 states the same principle, the same key - ‘ So be subject to God. Resist the devil [stand firm against him], and he will flee from you. ” Submission to God is the key to resisting evil ; such that not us, but the devil flees. Jesus Ch...

Just another day! Or is it!? So, here was this woman, a Samaritan, who was having just another day. She came to the well to draw her everyday water. It may seem she just happened to meet Jesus who was resting there from being on a journey. He was on the way and she was on the way. That day her way crossed His – or He crossed her way with His own – ‘ needing to go through Samaria ’ [ John: 4-4 ]. Was it a chance, an accident? It looks like it, initially, but by the time Jesus is done there, [ J ohn 4:41-42 ], full-fledged plan of God was being revealed, executed, and put into action for many people and generations. Let’s look at the conversation that our Savior stopped to have with a Samaritan woman – a conversation that changed her life and through her, of many others in her village. Jesus initiates the conversation John 4: 7 : Jesus asked her for a drink. This, in itself, is wonderful. Jesus initiated the conversation. There are a few examples in the gosp...