https://odb.org/2025/02/12/a-change-of-plans Isaiah 55:8–11 (NIV): 8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD.9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.10 As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return toContinue reading “For my thoughts are not your thoughts”
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He has put eternity in our hearts
https://odb.org/2024/04/05/now-and-forever Ecclesiastes is indeed a peculiar wisdom book in the Bible as Solomon seemed to say everything is vanity or meaningless. Except for one thing, and that is knowing God. Thus, we live and die. We work hard to earn a living. We start a family and raise children. We have possessions. But we canContinue reading “He has put eternity in our hearts”
Offer bargains to God
https://odb.org/2024/03/13/cries-of-distress Have we ever offered bargains to God when faced with desperate and distressing situations like a depressing medical diagnosis, a financial quagmire, a bleak or uncertain future, or the loss of someone close? We may want to say if you heal me, O Lord, I will do this and do that for you. Jesus,Continue reading “Offer bargains to God”
Realm of the dead
https://odb.org/2024/03/11/embrace-today I think it’s tragic that when we are about to die that we regret not having made much of our life that God gave us. Like in the novel, Nicola, who was born with wealth and talents, felt she had wasted her life and thus refused to acknowledge that she has terminal cancer. IContinue reading “Realm of the dead”
God our refuge
https://odb.org/2024/03/07/strength-and-tenderness The temptation to sin is always present all around us. It could be the work of dark forces in the spiritual realm, or it could also be naturally occurring as a lot of times it could also be an internal perception. Meaning to say, instead of some invinsible being putting temptations along our way,Continue reading “God our refuge”
Esther, Queen of Persia
https://odb.org/2024/01/25/strange-places-2 It is amazing how Esther, an orphan adopted and raised as his own by her cousin, Mordecai, could be chosen to be a concubine and later crowned the Queen of Persia by the Persian King, Xerxes. Persia was the superpower nation then at that part of the world. Esther, together with her cousin, Mordecai,Continue reading “Esther, Queen of Persia”
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