Category: Seeking the Lord
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Surrendering Pride

This period of my life as I am living in Birmingham is really the first time in my life where I’m fully on my own and trying to meet all my needs and be self-sufficient. I’m learning many new things like being a homeowner, working my first full-time job, budgeting my finances, and managing my…
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Where You Are

The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he wrote these words in a book at the dictation of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah: “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, to you, O Baruch: You said, ‘Woe…
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Deeper Trust in Him

I’ve been studying Jeremiah lately. A majority of the book of Jeremiah is God’s disappointment in His people, Jeremiah’s sorrow and anger towards the people going against God, and the people of Judah continually choosing their selfish desires over God. The people lack repentance, spiritual discipline, and a genuine relationship with God. Jeremiah, on the…
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2023: Seek

Seek – attempt to find; desire to obtain or achieve. Oxford English Dictionary Remember the game, “Hide and Seek”? One person, the seeker, counts while the others go and hide. Once the others hide, the seeker goes around trying to find the others throughout the house. There are two main goals depending on what role…