The middle part of our Bibles is called the poetic section or the wisdom literature. These books are for our hearts and souls. The things that we learn in reading them are to help us along our journey and to address the feelings we have as we walk with God....
Paul wrote "whatsoever is not of faith is sin" (Rom.14:23). He also penned in Romans 6:11, "consider yourselves dead to sin but alive to God". So to enjoy all that God is and all that He has, we must simply exercise faith - i.e., believe! - that we are already...
The soil of my heart, or the heart of any person, must be good and honest. This is what the parable of the sower of seed teaches in Matthew 13. Good and honest must consume my frame of reference, my supreme center for all soul activity, my source of all...
