Corona Devotionals

Taking pictures of the coastline the other day, I spotted something that brought my spirit a smile. Question: What's black and white and polka-dot all over? Answer: The creativity and intellectual design of our Divine Creator. There, just below me on the coastal cliff, was a (black and white) mama seagull, feeding her (polka dot) chicks some lunch. Did you know seagull chicks are polka dotted?   Me neither.    But what a gorgeous and creative and majestic and amazing touch, Lord. So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. (22) God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.” (23) And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.  ~Genesis 1: 21-23 God created that beautiful black and wh...

Have you ever had a string hanging-down from a shirt or a button…and so, you pull it.  Sometimes the string snaps off, and you proceed with life.  But sometimes that string is the one fastening the button to the clothing, or holding the seam together, and so, pulling the string causes a button to fall off or a seam to fall apart. Or—picture a sweater with just one strand of the woven yarn dangling.  It’s just one strand, but with the pressure of a pull, the whole sweater can unravel. That is what I picture God telling us through the prophet Ezekiel about evil and those who are on the side of evil.  Their earthly “garment” may be in place today, but it is only a matter of time before it unravels completely or before the buttons fall off that are holding their superficial-status and false-truths together.  God is not blind to sin in this world, sin in our lives, and sin in the lives of those who do not submit their hearts to him.   For those of...