He disciplines us for our good, as a father corrects his son whom he loves (Hebrews 12:3–11). The truth is none of us likes to be corrected.  At least not any of us average people.  Living in mediocrity is comfortable and chilling.  There are few expectations.  We are not causing trouble.  We are able to…

“Now a certain ruler asked Him, saying, ‘Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?’ So Jesus said to him, ‘Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God’” (Luke 18:18-19).  My prayer was that I would be saved from the humility of having to seek help…

Psalm 103:13 Just as a father has compassion on his children, So the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him.  My life was a mess.  Addiction had made me unreasonable and often gave me delusions of grandeur.  I shared my small efficiency apartment on the second floor of a rundown apartment complex with more…

Isaiah 53:6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.  It can be very easy to look down on those in prison, who are homeless or on big-name people who fall morally in a very…