Thoughts About God - Christian Devotionals and Articles

Forgiveness is not excusing! Nor is it pretending.
To forgive is to move on, not to think about the offense anymore. You don’t excuse him, endorse her, or embrace them. You just route thoughts about them through heaven. Revenge is God’s job.
By the way, how can we grace-recipients do anything less? Dare we ask God for grace when we refuse to give it? It’s a huge issue in the Bible. Jesus was tough on sinners who refused to forgive other sinners. In the final sum, we give grace because we...

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son.” John 3:16
He had been out of prison only a few weeks when I met him. It was the result of a cold call that I made to ask him to speak at a men’s retreat I was leading. He said yes and it was the beginning of a long friendship. He was known as “The Hatchet Man...

Colleen Reece had a career choice to make!  She’d been offered the position as personal assistant to a bank president.  Definitely a step up the ladder for Colleen.  And to add icing to the cake – the salary she was offered was twice what she was making...

“The Lord your God will cleanse your heart…. so that you will love Him with all your heart and soul.” Deuteronomy 30:6
God greatly desires our love.
It is the nature of all love to want to be acceptable and to be accepted.  God longs to have the love of our whole heart....