“A person’s wisdom yields patience; it is to one’s glory to overlook an offense.” -Proverbs 19:11 There is always something in this world that can offend us. When we wake up each morning by the grace of God, it’s not if we’ll face offense, it’s when. This verse teaches us that wisdom gives birth to patience, and there is glory gained from overlooking offenses. The KJV puts it beautifully: “The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.” Where...

“Return to your rest, my soul, for the Lord has been good to you.” Psalm 116:7 It can be so easy to forget just how good the Lord has been to us sometimes. When things don’t go our way, or even when we are mildly inconvenienced, we can adopt a “woe is me” attitude and forget just how blessed we are in the grand scheme of things. When disaster strikes or life gets hard, our souls tend to despair. We worry and fret, sometimes to the point of sickness and exhaustion. However, we don’t have to...

Colossians 3:23 urges us, “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters.” This...