Life in Submission

  When the seas become solid   To finish out the three-part series on faith, I will be covering a practical application to equip anyone and everyone to feel more confident in their faith. This analogy came to me in a meditation and it has developed into a filter that I experience the world through, and I can only pray the same for you. I also pray that even though this story that has been exposited by many greater women and men than I am, there would be a freshness in the words I write that could lift your spirit and shine a new light on what I believe to be a new understanding of this ancient and incredible mystery of God. First, I will start with the vision I received and put it into a biblical context. I talked about this story in the first blog of the series when I dove into little faith . It takes place in Matthew 14   and it is when Jesus calls Peter out onto the water. We will pick up in Matthew 14:22.   Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of h

Study of Love in 1 Corinthians 13                         To understand anything about the depth of this passage, we must first break down this incredible passage of 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 or the “Love is…” passage. The other parts of the passage play into the entire narrative of 1 Corinthians, but this segment gleans an apparently inspired message of the nature of God that must be understood to grasp the weight or the kavod (glory) of this chapter. William Barclay gives his insight into the kavod of this chapter. “For many, this is the most wonderful chapter in the whole New Testament; and we will do well to take our time in studying words the full meaning of which could not be sufficiently revealed in a whole lifetime.” [1]           First, we must understand a study of such a deeply profound and delightful book will seem to be a drop in the ocean of wisdom, but I shall attempt the same: to take my time and try to express a profound and deep study of the chapter in light of the gran