Susan Lafferty

Devotional Making Disciples

Living bread

The crowds follow the fragrance. Looking for bread. Multiplying in His hands.

Fresh bread from the Master draws them. Like hot loaves from the oven.

But then. He speaks. Hard words. Strange to their ears. Threatening their loyalties.

Fresh bread. Image by Orlova Maria at Unsplash

Tags ascension, Bread of life, fully divine, fully human, hard sayings, Holy One, I AM, John 6:42-69, John 6:51, Manna, offended, Resurrected Savior, resurrection, Son of God, the cross, the gospel

Devotional Memoir

Untraceable ways

The shifting in our souls comes unbidden. Change is on the way. Undefined and unexplained. Untraceable.

Yet we know.

This surprises. Perplexes. How do we leave the incomplete? People we love? Those yet to turn and follow Christ?

We bring questions and loose ends before Him. Wrestle in prayer. Wanting specifics, really.

Silence.

Mystery and wonder. Image by Benjaminrobyn Jespersen on Unsplash.

Tags His mercies, His ways, His wisdom, hymn of praise, Lamentations 3:22-23, living sacrifice, loose ends, mystery, questions, Romans 11:33-36, Romans 12:1-2, wrestle in prayer

Devotional

Trust in the Lord

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart….” (Proverbs 3:5-6)

All? Yes, all. Not the part. But the whole.

“Search me, O God and know my heart…” (Psalm 139:23-24) And He does. Revealing hidden chambers. Locked tight. Corners where I hold fast to self-reliance. Secrets. Pride. Fear.

Can I trust Him with even these? Yes.

He will make your paths straight. Image by Thomas WIllmott, Unsplash.

Tags 2 Thessalonians 3:5, abiding in Christ, Exodus 33:13, He is the Way, Know Him, pride, Proverbs 3:5-6, Psalm 139:23-24, self-reliance, straight path, Trust, trust in the Lord

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