...and a time to speak...

I’ve been plagued recently with trying to understand why faith comes so easily to some of us while it seems an impossibility for others. Why is it that some of us can look at a rainbow and see nothing but God’s promise to Noah and his family and others can see nothing but the refraction of light caused by the sun shining during a rain storm. The truth is, of course, that both of these are correct. It’s just that those of us who are in constant pursuit of God will inevitably see God in every detail of our lives while those that are not tend to regularly miss Him. So the ultimate question is, what are you in pursuit of? Your career? Your children? A husband/wife? The weekend? Your next vacation? Whatever it is, if there is no pursuit of God that co-exists at the same time, without a doubt your faith (or what could be your faith) will suffer. Deuteronomy 4:29 says “But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find Him if you search after Him with all your heart and with a

I am about to call someone out and this person will know exactly who they are when/if they read this because we just had this conversation not long ago. This person is literally one of the people I love the most in the whole world and what they said really isn’t bad at all. In fact it was just a passing comment, but it got me thinking. The comment was something along the lines of “your blog posts are making me (and others this person knows) feel guilty.” When they said it, we just laughed it off and moved on to other things, but as I said it kind of got me thinking a little bit about the way in which I speak. The title of this post comes from Ephesians 4:15 which says “Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church.” This chapter of Ephesians is a call to “holy” living for all who are believers in Christ. “Holy” meaning to be set apart, to be different from the surrounding culture. Verse 15 above is a g