1 Timothy 1:5, “The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.” Love is one of those things that many of us think that we understand. But we cannot truly understand what love is outside of God’s word. In 1 Timothy 1:5, God has given us 3 important ingredients that make up love: a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere faith. Without all three of these things present, we cannot achieve the goal of love. Let’s look at each...

“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...