Have you ever heard the phrase, “You can’t push a rope”? It’s an old saying, and you often hear motivational or financial speakers make reference to it. I get a mental picture of a thick coil of rope like we use for tug of war. I read this explanation: “The reason pulling is efficient is…
Author: Joshua
Since 2001, Joshua has been writing his musings on life, liberty and the pursuit of godliness on this little blog. It's full of all kinds of fun little adventures and wisdom nuggets but mostly just the journey of a man through life.
Psalm 73 Reflections
I’ve been reading through my Dad’s old Bible lately during my devotional time. It’s a large print KJV with lots of pen and pencil notations and various pieces of paper and photos and other such interesting things he had in there. I came across one such bookmark in Psalm 73. Psalm 73 is a pretty…
The Wonder of Love
There’s a little, blonde, 1-and-1/2-year-old boy named Ezekiel who loves to run down the aisle of the auditorium when he sees me. As soon as I come into the church, he wriggles out of his mom’s arms and comes tottering down the aisle at full speed — sometimes a little wobbly — but arms stretched out…
Strength
Paul talks about having a “thorn in the flesh” in his letter to the Corinthians which has caused many to speculate over the years as to what it was. Was it demonic; was it a physical illness; was it a temptation? He doesn’t specify and says how he asked God several times for it to…