Canvas of the Heart

“For among them are those who worm their way into women’s households and capture idle women burdened down with sins, led along by a variety of passions, always learning and never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.” 2 Timothy 3:6-7 (HCSB) I don’t know about you, but something about the description of this woman above sobers me. I’ve known those who I might consider to be idle and those who are always following a new passion, yet not passionate about the one thing that really matters in life…following Jesus. But, the part of this verse that really stops me in my tracks is “always learning and never able to come to a knowledge of the truth”. I don’t want to be this woman! The woman who looks in the mirror of God’s word and doesn’t change a thing. The woman who doesn’t heed these words in James, “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.” Storing up knowledge makes us spiritual hoarders rendering everything we possess worthless. The

“Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.” (Mark 16:15) At the heart of the Christian faith is the Gospel. Growing up in church, I was introduced to the word early on in life.  I remember one of my pastors encouraging the church to share the Gospel. I knew what he meant in the context of his sermon, but I am not sure if I knew exactly what it all really boiled down to enough to tell someone else. I knew what had happened to me and that my life was truly changed, but I was still learning how to put the mystery into words. Truth is, I wasn’t trying to share it enough to even realize that I didn’t quite know how to put it into words. There is no perfect formula and God can use anyone who steps out in faith for Him, but if the Gospel was important enough that God Himself entrusted it to mankind to share with one another, maybe I ought to put some effort into finding the best way for me to clearly communicate it to someone else. When I am learn

Spiritual Heritage "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, and the God of Jacob." Exodus 3:6 "Taking personal ownership of our spiritual lineage-both in what we receive and what we pass down-is titanic in this Scriptural journey." Beth Moore I can't tell you that the words of Scripture jump off the page and grab my heart every day. However, there are days when that absolutely does happen and those days make all the other days worth the search. God met me so personally in the thick of Bible Study on day two of this week. My husband had sent a text to me that morning about his studies of Abraham. I was reminded how Abraham was called by God to get up and go (not even knowing where he was going). How he obeyed and dwelled in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs of the same promise. Then, later I was reading in our Entrusted Study where Beth had us envision standing in our spiritual family tree in heaven and how the whole thing would