Pride and blame blur truth. Humility and honesty clear it up. To ignore uncomfortable truth is to resist the conviction of the Holy Spirit.

Unless we let God tune our heart and keep it tuned to His will we’ll easily stray into the discord of self-focus. The more I’m aware of God’s splendorous, majestic, and grandiose identity, the less need I feel to identify myself.

Free will! If you don’t want to see what God wants to show you, He’s not going to force you to exit the darkness. To avoid uncomfortable truth is to distance yourself from God.

The more you focus on yourself, the more you blur your vision of God. Every time you make the decision to close down your heart you blur your inner vision.

When we read the Bible with an open, humble, and receptive heart and let the Holy Spirit speak within us God begins to show us His point of view. When reading the Bible makes you uncomfortable you’re on God’s Light track! Keep reading.

The Bible tells the uncomfortable truth about ancient Israel and about contemporary you. They wouldn’t hear it. Will you? To be sick while ignoring the symptoms and dodging the diagnosis isn’t wise. Let the Bible show you the symptoms and the cure for your sin.

Christ-followers are called to align our thinking and behavior with God’s point of view even when it goes against our own opinions, feelings, and desires. The more I cling to my opinions, feelings, and desires, the farther I stray from God’s.

After decades of observing church, I’ve noticed that Sunday messages prepared and delivered by a studious mind seem to lack the power to transform Christians into powerful and effective men and women of God who continually demonstrate the power and presence of the living Jesus in and through their daily life. It’s time to go beyond church as usual!

Pride, guilt, shame, and blame are symptoms of sin. Medicating, blurring, or boasting about the symptoms won’t cure the disease.

To medicate
And blur your pain
Is to abdicate
The opportunity
To receive
God’s supernatural comfort
In the midst of it.