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Devotional Making Disciples Memoir

Broken record

Broken record pleading. Same old insecurity. Inadequacy. 

Pride.

Doing a number on my thinking.

Fiery-dart target practice, feels like, somedays.

Age-old questions on repeat. 

Broken record. Image by Pierre Gui on Unsplash.
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Devotional Making Disciples

Famine

Famine. It’s coming. 

An odd theme to consider in the middle of Thanksgiving season. But there it is. In my daily Bible reading.

Amos the herdsman delivers this word of the Lord. To a people nonchalant. Complacent. And ultimately resistant. 

Unwilling to repent. 

And this is no scarcity of grain in lean years. Nothing like the famine of Joseph’s day. 

Famine. Image by Bernd Dittrich on Unsplash.
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Devotional Making Disciples Memoir

Emptied

Emptied. 

Called to have the same attitude as Christ. 

Yet this earthen vessel still reveals trace amounts. Vestiges of pride and selfish ambition. Clutter.

And I learn my emptied is not a one-time thing.

But daily.

Emptied. Image by Jonathan Kemper on Unsplash.