Category: Eyes to see

Do you ever wonder or worry whether or not you have done all you should to meet a calling or an opportunity in your life? Have you ever questioned whether you were “fulfilling your mission” with God in a particular area?

Maybe it’s because I am four weeks away from sending my last child off to college that the question rumbles around in my head from time to time: “Have I done all I need to do to equip this last kid to fly fully and confidently from the nest?”

Where do you think God lives? What comes to mind as you consider the location of His dwelling place?

This past Sunday, the call to worship in our service came from Psalm 84:1-4. The opening verses read: “How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD of hosts! My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the Lord…” (verses 1-2a, ESV)

In my last blog I wrote about shifting your gaze from your circumstances to the reality of the gospel, the new life we have in Christ, and the way He is always at work in us (even if we cannot sense it at all times).

Psalm 111:3 says, “Everything he does reveals his glory and majesty” (NLT).

One way to shift your gaze Godward is to intentionally pursue and enjoy God’s majesty.

This morning I was struck by the fact that I can barely remember Easter.

I couldn’t recall anything about the date or celebration of Easter in my life this year—not even what month it was in without consulting a calendar. I had a vague sense that I never finished out my Lenten practice of watching episodes of The Chosen.

My inability to locate a memory of Easter 2026 was immediately accompanied by another upsetting realization: my struggle to remember Easter is more than just a calendar and memory-related fact.

We live in a world that drives us to think of our value in terms of our behavior, our productivity, our merits. The grace of the gospel overturns such ideas. Knowing how God sees His children is critical to our mental, emotional, and spiritual health.

Today I'm sharing a excerpt from my latest book, which focuses on the astounding identity available to us in Christ. One of those identities is that we are blameless before Him.

I recently returned from the Sonoran Desert, the only place in the world where you can find the iconic saguaro cactus (pronounced suh-waa-row). If you are picturing the kind of tall cactus with arms you see in a Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote cartoon, you are on the right track.

The landscape of this desert is breathtaking, and these cacti are a large part of that beauty.