“He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.” Psalm 147:3 This morning, reading these words, I am reminded of who God was to me in the season of my broken heart. Because He was more real and His presence more clearly felt than ever before…and that made the season beautiful and precious to me. […]
“The LORD builds up Jerusalem; he gathers the outcasts of Israel. He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. He determines the number of the stars; he gives to all of them their names. Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure… His delight is not in the strength […]
“He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. He determines the number of the stars; he gives to all of them their names. Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure.” Psalm 147:3-5 The same God who determines how many stars are in the sky, the God who names […]
“Come and see what God has done: he is awesome in his deeds toward the children of man.” Psalm 66:5 The God of Heaven is involved in our lives. In our days. In our details. The wonder of this is astounding me all over again. Because so easily that thought can become commonplace…when it really […]
“You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in a bottle. Are they not in your book?… This I know, that God is for me.” Psalm 56:8-9 I read a quote this morning from Samuel Rutherford, a Scottish minister in the 1600s. It’s from a letter he wrote while imprisoned because of his […]
“The LORD said to Samuel, ‘How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.’” 1 Samuel 16:1 Samuel was caught in […]
In Pleasant Places 