Last Updated on December 21, 2025 by LookingUntoJesus

Job 32:8 KJV – if you ever wonder where you ought to go, for your next vacation, I’ll say that Carcassonne is worth a visit, it is something dreamlike but real. A long time ago, I had a classmate that use to tease me a lot. One day, I asked her, if she wanted to become friends, instead of being mean. Her culture: an implication of a southern Spanish provincial. I didn’t realize how fascinating she was. We began having many conversations; not many people spoke to her, she was very quiet but assertive, like a snapping turtle. She gave me a goodbye card before we went our separate ways, after school ended. In it, she suggested that I appeared to her as someone mean and tough but I was really sensitive, considerate and a kind guy. It made me really think about Phil. 1:6, about how even what we view as “opposition” in our lives (Matt. 5:44), can actually “work together for good” (Romans 8:28-29) for us and be used by His Spirit to “provoke unto love and to good works” (Hebrews 10:24 KJV). Just like the vacation wonderment, what is “relayed” could be the next stepping stone of what we need to remove + work on with the Holy Spirit, to proceed with what God has planned for us and for the people we come across (Matthew 11:28 -> Proverbs 9:9 KJV -> Eph. 4:12-13).  

Rev. 2:13 – there is a famous Chinese folklore called “The Empty Fort Strategy”, it’s worth the read, I vaguely remember but studied about that when I attended Chinese School. The words that come to mind ‘know your Enemy”, let us look beyond the human component for this illustration. In that folklore tale, a large army could’ve easily taken that weakly defended city but an unconventional overall strategy was used, so the invading army thought they would be walking into a trap and turned around. The point here is that the spiritual stakes are higher, that very weak city (for example: any church), could’ve easily lost. In Acts 18:2-3 and 2 Tim. 4:11 – churches need to spend time looking for people like that, in those verses, and the kind of spiritual calibre by His Spirit, that can make the Adversary and His Hosts, retreat from their enthronements and advancements. Vanishingly and almost unheard of, present day Heroes of Faith; by His Spirit, they can register “something” that ripples through eternity (Acts 17:6-7 ESV). I’ll end with Deut. 32:30.

(John 6:70-71) [Phil. 3:7-8 NIV, 1 Cor. 12:21], 1 Tim. 6:12 -> 2 Cor. 10:4-5 and Eph. 6:12 – when I watched Saving Private Ryan (1998) a long time ago, I remembered this particular scene, the point of this is only to illustrate the spiritual value -> fast forward to :58 on Youtube: “Saving Private Ryan (1998) | Machine Gun Nest Movie Clip 4K HDR10 Kodak 5247 Remastered”. Human beings with spiritual discernment will speak casually about matters because it’s part of the way God made them but to others, it may seem irregular or uncharacteristic. For example, people who are given a singing ability, aside from helping out in worship to God, will also sing for fun. With the way God made us, it’s just an impulse. There is a fruitful spiritual value, when spiritual abilities from Christ Himself, are called and used, according to His purpose. There is a significant “need” right now for us to function properly, where God has selected for us and move away from self-manufactured positions, to fight for people’s “eternal life”. Our struggle is letting someone else deal with unspiritual strongholds, rather than us in Christ and through His strength unified together by His Spirit, pursuing the demolishing of these unholy high places. As you can see, in that movie, the spiritual counterpart is that we have the option to let the Adversary and His Hosts ambush other people’s spiritual lives, in that camouflaged state. We need the courage to see past “flesh and blood” and this natural perspective but look at the spiritual component in the matter, the entire Body of Christ, for all generations. We can’t let Satan persuade our thoughts and capture our mentalities to do otherwise. As you can see, for me, that Phil. verse, I have put everything on the line for Christ, if I suffer loss for His sake, as a result for standing up for “the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus” and that His people turn out well, for opposing sin and demonic strongholds, in a strictly spiritual context. That’s fine with me. My question: “is this your mission?” Present and future generations “need” each other, by His Spirit to function in the Body of Christ. By His Spirit, we must protect them through His strength (Isaiah 40:11). Will you fight the good fight? Or walkaway?

1 Samuel 25:3 NIV – I went to a Christian workshop, and a lady that I barely knew with the name “Shirley” was presenting, and she wished everyone a good upcoming week, at the end; so I stood up and said, “surely, we will.” My gosh that was so funny. 

Prov. 16:2 and Gen. 3:10 – my friend bought a house that she didn’t like, and a good friend of hers who was in a different town asked about her, so I relayed to her an update. She said “then why you buy?” To this day, I still laugh from her reaction and the way she squished her face with concern. There are things that we often accumulate but you need to ask yourself what is driving that desire and is that what you really want? Will that distance you from Christ (Matthew 16:23)? When I use to work at a nuclear plant, I noticed that people looked so old because of the radiation and my coworkers laughed at me. The way we think and the choices we make, will demonstrate how much more polishing God needs to do (Isaiah 64:6). Sometimes, it will take something devastating, unfortunately, to snap us out of this unknowingly captured state, where our mentality has moved so far, that the Holy Spirit must take drastic measures and we do know how drastic they can be; using the outworking of John 3:30. 

Isaiah 5:20-21 – I’ll show you my reflections. The sky: molten lavender, my sister’s hairdo tangled with leaves, my mother frying potato wedges into the autumn air, everything seemed to make sense. I was trying to understand that day, why my sister was stitching yarn into a picture. It took so long going through each grommet. I was looking at the glaze of snow in the backyard, preferring something else to do. I was unaware of how good my life was, listening to the sonnet of crickets, when the moon rose above the train tracks. Without any worry or need, my mind dissolving into the joyful surrender of the sun upon my face. Sometimes, letting the breeze decide which alternative route I should take to elementary school. If you used a green font, the grass appeared as punctuation marks. I still remember the school bell, while I was at a pharmacy, buying candies with my change. The movements of a recess, when it rained like diamonds, daydreaming about anything because nothing could hold you back, the aliveness of sound within a classroom, the amber sunlight while biking through a forest, turning the streets into gold, my sister with her arms stretched -as if taking flight into the sunset, with a macaroni neckless: words of horror stories told that vanished like a campfire without any wood left. The fatigue from a day spent in splendour. Think about this. Satan can impact our interpretations so that we somehow end-up getting into a disagreement with God/Jesus/the Holy Spirit/the Bible. Right? So the point is, in the process of all of that, there is the unspiritual trail that influences the way we think and see. Everyday, ask God to purify us inwardly and outwardly (Matt. 5:8), so we can see and appreciate God better. It’s a pretty beautiful world out there, I like being me in Christ (Psalm 8:3-4).

2 Chr. 20:17 NKJV “see the salvation of the Lord” and Genesis 14:22-23 ESV – “What’s the point of spending all that time reading the Bible, if I’m going to make a career choice like that?” I sat in the passenger seat, thinking to myself quietly, while neon signs blinked upon the windshield. My friend had shared with me what he did for a living, instead of using his spiritual discernment gift to help God’s people. Flying business class, needless jewelry glistening on a rearview mirror, a different car rental every ~2 weeks, people saluting you while you are entering to park, a marble floor condo, you name it, needless extravagance is there. I looked at him, he smiled like an addict, it was uncivilized sophistication. There was something responsible for radiating the need from within to continue, an inability to see any clarity from his captured desires because he didn’t want to escape either, that he himself was the assailer against what he was meant to be, implicated by the love of money. I understood his legal business model but I can’t wear the same suits, during the weekdays and on Sundays at church; it would be hypocritical. What that 2 Chr. verse meant to me in that situation was -> does it help people’s spiritual lives? The answer is no, it would help me only (Genesis 39:9). This would turn out to be my own will and not God’s path for me (Luke 12:15, Matthew 7:21 and 1 Peter 5:8). So I turned down that offer. I know what I’m not, and that’s not who I am. 

Luke 22:54–62 (NIV) “The Lord turned and looked straight at Peter. Then Peter remembered the word the Lord had spoken to him”, Mark 8:38 and John 1:14 – my aunt and uncle while retired, would allocate time for rezoning meetings, in Asia. One day, they shared with me the idea that a developer found a way to build upon a 5 storey condo establishment but they explained that no one would want that in the long-term because the locals knew better. The vertical extension of the condo sold out fast because it was prime real estate, if you did a 360 degree rotation, in the middle of the street, it would be hundreds of years to modern day history, within a few seconds. When the new condo owners moved in, they realized that they weren’t aware of the need for other features, there wasn’t an elevator, carrying groceries was a nightmare, the stairs were steep, by the time you climbed to the highest floor, you didn’t want to go back down to explore the extravagance of the cityscape. It was nothing but bad news, people began selling and leaving the prime real estate because they realized what that place was about. In Neh. 8:8,12-13 – we have to provide people with a proper attention of scriptures, even if people may not like to hear it because telling people spiritual truths can be edifying and nourishing, we aren’t here to just glamourize the outward ears. We can’t let the assertions in the passages of Luke overpower our identities in Christ and what scriptures stand for. The quote “certainly this fellow was with him”, that is a unique pinpointing challenge to our faith right now, and we must stand up to that for all its worth. Let’s deeply establish this within our inward being with the Holy Spirit, that we are “with Him”, we will not be ashamed: with His leadings, when asserting scriptures because of how others will think or what they will say about us or how that impacts our reputations. This is a spiritual malady right now that must be dealt with. We can be very similar to my aunt and uncle, who chose not to speak up and there were long-term lasting hardships for those people. In the spiritual context, it’s a lose-lose scenario: we are being irresponsible with our entrusted deposit and the Lord loses out on many eternal lives that could’ve otherwise been saved and ministries enabled had we applied 2 Tim. 3:16. Will you remember the Word, daily? We must all stand together on this. In Isaiah 48:17, if I were to have a child, and he or she walked for the first time, I see something that could cause the child to trip, in his or her path, I would remove that, it’s for the best interest of the child. The spiritual point to that is we are all suppose to remove stumbling blocks for each other with Christ (Isaiah 57:14), if we do this together, it’ll be “very good” for present and future generations. I’ll end with 2 Tim. 1:7.

Proverbs 23:26 NIV, Mark 8:22-25 – “Do you see anything?” Gen. 28:16 – what I have been noticing in my current quiet time with the Lord, is an emphasis about how the Bible trains our spiritual eyes for practical applications. We can be blind to the Holy Spirit’s larger stories into the mysterious unseen. We need Him to make sense, of what crosses our paths. Otherwise, it might continue to be all a blur, when there are lessons that are meant to be learned to make us Christlike. Our spiritual eyes need to linger and reflect on the day’s events (Psalm 68:19 NKJV). There is intention with the arrangement. For example: I saw on the SkyTrain a couple reading the details of a bag of chips they bought, intently, I can tell that this was not an ordinary purchase to them, the way they held and looked at the colours of the bag of chips, while their clothes had sprouts of cloth from many areas. We need Christ to transform our perspectives, every single day, to sharpen our spiritual perceptiveness, in order to understand that the spiritually constructed scenes yesterday (past tense), hold spiritual dimensions today and forever (Hebrews 13:8, Isaiah 50:4). What I learned from that: we need to have more compassion toward the extremely poor and disenfranchised communities. I’ll end with Deut. 4:9 NIV.

Psalm 33:11 NIV, Psalm 121:5, Proverbs 21:30, Job 38:11 – When I went to a camp with my elementary school class, we learned about wilderness survival, since I lived in the city, it wasn’t really applicable to me. My classmate who I went to kindergarten with, and I still know him; his parents bought him a disposable camera, to take memorable pictures of his trip. So he ended up, taking pictures of the toilet non-topographically, and when his parents developed the film, they didn’t find it funny at all. Then, when I went to middle school, my friend told us to start clapping and cheering, near the end of a live recording of a group presentation, rather than at the end, when they finished presenting. The teacher had to redo the recording and the group had to recite their material again. The spiritual counterpart is that God has a lot of plans for future generations, and He must stand firm, in His ways with us, with the spiritual succession purposes of other members in the Body of Christ that are connected to and through us. If you think about the timeline of our spiritual lives like my friendship with my kindergarten friend; the Lord will continue to decelerate our immaterial behaviours, He will teach us to redo the presentation of ourselves, according to His living Word. In Proverbs 20:24, we can only see so far in our lifetime but in Heb. 11:13, it’s worth it all for His people, even if we don’t get to see our whole spiritual family group picture at the moment, from all of our wilderness experiences that are for the good of His church.

Neh. 13:31 – during university, I started talking to an old high school friend, and I remember how tough it was. She wasn’t going through a good time in her life and everything was falling apart. I spent a long time, a few years helping her through it with Christ. I learned to pray a lot, during that time. She got out of that unspiritual void in her life, a part of me couldn’t let her go and see her get destroyed by Satan. She later on began witnessing to people who went through a similar ordeal in her life and those people came to know the Lord; people that I would have no way of reaching, in evangelism. In Job 42:10 NKJV, the Lord does enable the ministries of others, by shutting us in with them, with the spiritual destinies of everyone, generationally, in mind; by His Divine order (Eph. 4:1 NIV). You might be going through challenges in your life, for the sake of others that the Lord values.

Exodus 20:21 (NKJV) – I use to pay my friend to play a computer game for me. In that game, there’s fog, so you cannot predict, what the enemy team is doing. In Lam. 3:44 NKJV – it is well-known that we can keep praying for something, and it “seems” like the clouds of Heaven aren’t parting to grant our specifics requests. What I do sometimes, if I’m not overtired, I look at the situation as God playing hide and seek with me (Isaiah 45:15 KJV and Matt. 6:33). I’m 100% sure that God knew that the child game would be invented (Matt. 18:3). When I was a child in Sunday school, during break times, we would often arm-wrestle each other, and work toward beating each other the following week, through drinking chicken soup, or eating a lot of pizza (ninja turtle inspiration). We didn’t have much understanding. My mother use to tell me that, I would often look at her, when I didn’t understand something, so she would explain the matter to me. What I am trying to get at is the reality that God very often, will take what we don’t understand or even introduce situations, where we cannot forecast what will happen next, as a way for us to “play” with the Lord (2 Samuel 6:21 KJV); to invite and interact with Him more. So God has His ways, to involve Himself more and more into our lives.

Judges 2:18 ESV – “For the Lord was moved to pity by their groaning”, Gen. 15:1, Josh. 4:24 – my sister and I preferred the cream of broccoli soup and french fries that my mother brought home; while seated, my eyes were barely above the dining table laughing at my sister’s colourful hair clips. My mother didn’t make it home, while we were hungry and we didn’t understand. Fast forward, she told us that every piece of glass of the windshield broke off and her car spun around several times, after being hit by a drunk driver. She said her eyes were wide open but not one single glass shard touched her eyes, many pieces were on her face and inside her pores. She told us that because she still had to take care of me and my sister that the Lord covered her eyes angelically, despite them being wide open. The paramedics and doctors never understood that but those verses made me understand.

Acts 10:38 NKJV “who went about doing good” – for a while on my spare time, I attempted to understand the backend of YouTube’s algorithm, I was very fascinated with “why”, my mindset enjoys to solve things. There are a lot of things in the present tense, that won’t make sense, sometimes, we have to look back, and give matters time. God’s timeline for us can be like that (John 13:7). The overall point: we can be so occupied with “why” that we end up walking on the edges of the canvas (Job 26:14 NKJV, Ecc. 11:5), instead of exploring the bigger picture of what He wants us to pursue, in order that we can ultimately go “about doing good”.

Isaiah 43:16, Matt. 14:28-31 and Hebrews 12:2 – growing up my parents acculturated me to farmer’s markets and Amish people, I still remember the scent of hay and the inescapable galloping sounds, had they eaten skittles, their clothes would be more colourful? I asked my parents why they celebrated halloween every week, and they explained to me that Amish people aren’t wearing costumes. My dad laughed the most in his life around me, more than television. On the way home, I wanted to buy a sword that lit-up in many colours but my parents told me that it was too expensive, so I kept crying. Reflection: we have a lot of desires that guide us, usurping the guidance of the Holy Spirit, when we let those wants overcome us. What is overcoming your mindset, right now? I find that Satan is really good at trying to unfix our eyes on Jesus, don’t you find that to be the case, as one of the Devil’s underlying motives? We need to ask Christ to pull us out of those mentally-sinking doubting situations. And so Jesus did reach out, and caught Peter. In Psalm 119:105 – using God’s Word to help people walk “in step with the Spirit” (Gal. 5:25b NIV) can command much light into their paths of extreme dark inward storms.  

Psalm 77:6,11-12 – I use to live in a town called Deep River, Ontario. It apparently had the highest number of people with PhDs in that area. When I was there, the population was around ~4000. It felt like a mythical place, whereas almost clockwork, when the temperature would decrease, people would come out and moon-gaze, the skies looked like ongoing brushstrokes of random watercolours, in slow motion. If you closed your eyes and breathed, you could feel the syllables of nature, like air going through keys in an instrument. I still remember those days, the Christian culture in that town was inviting each other over for meals, usually ~8 times a month. The restaurants there aren’t, what most would prefer, so that was a push toward that meal-sharing nomenclature. My Christian friend got a cook book and wanted to show me his Alfredo pasta recipe, my Christian coworker invited me over multiple times to eat with his family + play board games. It is healthy to reflect on what can be further spiritually-gleaned from previous chapters in our lives, things that we have missed, lessons that can still be learned and applied.

1 Samuel 14:27 and Psalm 34:8-10 – a long-time family friend of mine became a mother, and she loves to share stories about her son. One day, she decided to introduce him to milk powder formula and what she realized was that after ~30 minutes of feeding him with a bottle, the ml was around the same volume. He kept rejecting that milk, even being a couple of months old, the baby has an enabled awareness of what he desires and knows what is real or isn’t what it’s suppose to be. Similarly, when we consume spiritual foods, what does happen, we “seek” more of Christ, there is something of the “feeding” that He provides that makes us behave like the Christian song from Psalm 42:1-2. Our desires change with what Christ feeds us; that nutrient derived from a Heavenly source in itself characterizes us to have a “likeness” in the Divine nature of who He is and to desire what He desires. Using Matt. 6:33 – unbeknownst to us, it becomes more ingrained for us to “seek” Him, while before we struggled to place Him first. There’s something about what He gives us to “taste” that we “see” the aftereffects in our spiritual life; 1 John 3:2-3 and John 1:14 – we are truly becoming like Him and what He says in His Word (Luke 10:27 ESV).

Matt. 14:13-21 and 2 Kings 4:1-7 – it was a noontide winter, as the golden snowflakes fell, my mother chuckled while she prepared food for me, while I was in my big boy chair. Her cutting board sounded the way Picasso would paint, during the autumnal exchange of fresh fruits and cheeses in Paris. She asked me, “where does food go, after you eat?” I explained to her that the apple slices go to an apple slices bin and the Cheetos went to a bin labeled cheetos, inside my body. The spiritual counterpart is that though we can see the world differently with food, we all have a spiritual nature within us that is meant to with Christ keep giving spiritual food to people. In both of those Matt. & 2 Kings stories, something is yielded, that played a role in activating the Divine realm to respond. You see how important it is to yield to Christ?

Exodus 15:2 NIV – my Sunday school classmate and I use to play a computer game. I asked him, “why am I not winning against the enemy?” He told me that, “a good offence is a good defense.” The industrial complex of my military base had a bunch of defensive structures, and he told me to build more tanks. In our walk with the Lord, we often are in a state of defending ourselves against the Enemy, our faith structure is just shielding ourselves defensively against all the unspiritual mind games that the Adversary and His Hosts plays against us. In Col. 1:29 ESV – read that whole verse with this emphasis “with all His energy”, something very unique is embedded in what Paul did, against the Enemy and what sustaining strength he was provided with to change the tactics of the battlefield into a spiritual advantage. Putting to use the spiritual equipments that God has given us, it will make us more spiritually-effective and efficient. Much more than just using a shield, we can practice using the Sword of the Spirit more -we honestly can -we can help our brothers and sisters more, we can tell people the truth, we can practice being holier, we can go with the momentum of evangelism, we can pray. -> Eph. 6:10-11 (reread those verses 3x+) and Romans 8:37. The tactical focus -> ask the Holy Spirit to change our mindset from the world to the mindset of Christ (2 Tim. 2:3-4 and Matt. 6:33). Then read Eph. 6:12 KJV.

1 Cor. 4:20 and Matt. 9:29 – a couple of stories: a) bone cancer lady b) cancer lady c) my friend up to mischief. For a) she would affright the staff with her voice from the pain, I put my hand on her elbow area and prayed that she can be a miracle so that others may know Him. The next week, her cancer went into remission and she sat up straight, despite what the cancer did to her spine; majority of her immediate friendship circles aren’t Christians. The doctors were baffled. For b) I prayed and inquired of the Lord. I knew within why, He wanted to give her a challenge for her faith because she is way too spiritual. I relayed that to her. Afterward, around 2 months later, her cancer went into remission. For c) my friend was up to mischief, and if he went ahead with his plans to misbehave at a party, it would’ve undid all the progress of me + the Holy Spirit trying to help him know the Lord. I prayed that God would prevent him from going on that trip. A few days prior, the Lord struck him down with a severe cold, where he was bedridden for a very long time, and he wasn’t able to go on that trip. A few years later, he accepted Christ, as his saviour. I remember telling c) why he was sick, and he was laughing while using a medical machine. What I learned from all 3 of those stories, and praying for those people: if you can demonstrate to God how Christ would be losing out, if such a situation was to proceed, He does take extraordinary actions for His Son (Gen. 18:23-24). Somehow, Christ will benefit from the situation, directly or indirectly. 

Mark 5:25–34 – I use to go to Amish farmer markets pretty regularly, I would buy their icing sugar raspberry whipped butter cream spread, super amazing on toast. I was invited to one of their barn hymn sings, they smelled like tires that did a burnout upon a grassy field at an elementary school, during a rainy midnight, from a dare. We sang hymns, while eating these soda crackers they made with freshly churned butter. I asked them what was life like? He invited me over to have dinner with his wife, his son and their new daughter. I printed 6 verses of the Bible, and we chatted for around 2 hours, they played with their baby, her toes touched this ice cream cake I brought. He told me that he tried sharing the gospel to many people but the congregation barely grew, at all, people in that town were content already with their lives and there wasn’t a need for God. He  mentioned that there were many things crowding out everyone’s time, and people didn’t realize how little time is left for God. When I look back upon that story; this comes to mind: something actualized that can intersect the timelessness of Christ into an immediate outcome with our temporal time?

Acts 22:25-28, 2 Tim. 1:7 and 1 Thess. 5:21 – a long time ago in Chalk Rivers, Ontario; when I almost got killed because of Satan. The Nuclear Response Force Officer’s finger was on the trigger of the automatic weapon while shouting at me, we were within 300 meters away from a nuclear reactor. I rolled my eyes, “would a spy eat a cream cheese bagel to get busted like this?” He squinted, as if his training manual hasn’t come across something like this before. His coworker pulled up in a truck and waved at me, “he was in the same training orientation as me, we called him, joker.” “I see, I haven’t seen you around here before, I apologize,” and he walked away. The spiritual counterpart to that story is that we get all sorts of people, things, thoughts, and the unspiritual, asserting their jurisdictions in our lives and they don’t belong there nor do they have any place in our lives (Proverbs 1:10-11). We have to understand that, instead of wasting our mindsets entertaining those unfruitful dramas and being apprehended by useless phantom old nature thoughts. I spiritually discern that this is a major conflict right now with majority of Christians at local churches, they keep entertaining “what ifs”, it even impacts their time at church on Sundays, and variables for finalizing choices + opinions about others. This also creates more unspiritual ensnarements upon members in the church, a form of division. Also, if the Lord is disciplining someone, and successfully improving that person’s inward life; it is a useless poison to use emotions and the old ways, as a form for retaliating against these changes that the Holy Spirit is pursuing for the betterment of the church. 

Numbers 9:17 – not moving is just as important as moving with the Spirit. In my lifetime, I have seen people focus on the end-goal, wanting to move on ahead that they miss out on all the prep-work to get there. ‘I wanted to work for a job but I wasn’t prepared enough, for when I got the job,’ an example. Both of these stages of stopping and going serve an underlying purpose. I understand that society will pressure us to compete with one another but we need to remember Gen. 16:2; I was once told a story about a farmer that wanted his crops to grow faster, so he watered twice as much and it ruined what he should’ve got, that wasn’t what the goal was. In Ecc. 3:11 – there’s a timing that sees a bigger plan than we understand, so we have to ascertain -> Psalm 119:19 and Eph. 5:17, there’s something there, a stepping-stone for the next journey of the path. Zech. 4:6.

Matt. 6:28-30 and Ezekiel 1:28 (NKJV) – I travel a lot on spur of the moment Christian adventures to try and make the short stories I write more vividly alive. I’ll take the ferry a couple blocks away near-midnight or catch a bus to Horseshoe Bay and flip a coin for a destination or jump on the skytrain and figure out my adventure with a backpack full of zero sugar pop. I was looking at a plant, the plant was looking at me, I noticed these little jewels of rain on the petals, after a huge rainstorm. These jewels were arrayed with the beautiful reflection from the rainbow above (Luke 24:49 ESV). We are meant to dazzle this Light of Christ, inwardly to others, to help them see, something so much more than what meets the outward eyes, to let them “behold the beauty of the Lord” (Psalm 27:4). The flower looked better, after the storm, it didn’t faint or give-up, something so brittle became more radiant (2 Cor. 4:1).

Joshua 24:15 – I was given a life and death situation, in the middle of the night. My friend video-called me. “You are the first person that I am telling this to. Make that choice for me…..I wish I could take a photo of you right now.” My jaw remained dropped for a few minutes. I told him, “the baby lives.” I couldn’t be part of the idea that any death occurred, from my options. We all have to make these decisions, regarding the spiritual destiny of the people we come across. Whether people succeed in their walk with the Lord from our interactions and how that impacts the generations going forward.

Proverbs 27:17 – around 2 decades later, I decided to look up a student of mine (searching on the net -not meet her), from the time I taught children ministry, who went through a very tragic situation in her life. I was wondering how she was, if she turned out alright. After so many years of prayer. I hadn’t realized how much she inspired me to be the person that God’s people needed me to be. Life is going by too fast, I feel like it was just last week that we were back in children ministry class, when she asked for my opinion about her turtleshell glasses.