For Your Heart Today When we hear God's invitation, “Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?” we may imagine being sent somewhere new, somewhere unfamiliar, or perhaps somewhere far away. But what if God's invitation begins right where we are? Throughout Scripture, God meets people in particular places and invites them to participate in His work there. The same is true for us. Our lives unfold in ...

For Your Heart Today Life is full of choices, crossroads, and invitations. As we seek to discern where God is leading, there comes a time when we are called to respond. In Isaiah 6, we encounter a man whose extraordinary vision of God's holiness brings him face to face with his own shortcomings and the wonder of God's grace. When he hears God asking, “Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?” Isaiah...

For Your Heart Today When we hear the word discernment, we often think about making decisions, trying to figure out what God wants us to do or which direction He wants us to take. But discernment is so much more than that. Discernment is how we live in relationship with God. It's learning to recognize His presence, His voice, and His movements in the ordinary moments of life, as well as the big d...

For Your Heart Today Life has a way of “life-ing.” Seasons change, circumstances shift, and sometimes we find ourselves asking, Why me? Where is God? What in the world is God doing? Ecclesiastes reminds us that even when we cannot see the whole story, God is at work within our seasons. God places purpose within us. God is making things beautiful in their time. And God has planted eternity in our ...

For Your Heart Today We spend a lot of time asking, What am I supposed to do? What is my purpose? Where can I serve? What does God want from me in this season? But perhaps there is a question that comes first: How am I being with God? When Luke introduces Tabitha, he doesn't begin with everything she did. He begins with who she was: a disciple. Her life was rooted in her relationship with Jesus,...