I am a firm believer that we have a reason for everything we do. We don’t always recognize what our reasons are, but we have them. Often, we are motivated by a deep sense of need that we can’t define or describe, but we know it’s there. All human need can be defined at its heart by five universal needs. These are needs that are common to all of us; that get to the marrow of what drives so much of what we think, feel and do. The better we can understand those issues and the passions that lie beneath them, the better we can understand our own motives.
Yesterday, I walked through four essential truths that are laid out in the Lord’s prayer, found in Matthew 6.9-13. When personalized those four truths are:
God is my Father who provides for me.
God is my Judge who forgives me.
God ...more
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Category: Re-Imagining Life
Thursday October 22, 2009
A while back, I was reading the Lord’s Prayer in the book of Matthew. Though I had read it many times in the past, God gave me a new insight into Jesus’ thoughts contained within its verses. As I reflected ...more
