God’s sovereignty

Every Child Is First a Thought in the Mind of God

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As I read Luke’s account of the birth of John the Baptist, I found myself asking a simple but profound question. If God is the Author of every human life, and if every child is known personally by Him from the very beginning, how should that change the way we look at one another? Perhaps the command to love one another begins, not with trying harder, but with learning to see people through the eyes of their Creator.

The Oil Is Not Guaranteed

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We assume that oil belongs to the olive and juice belongs to the grape, as though these things were automatic outcomes of pressure and process. Yet Micah reveals something far deeper: even the yield within the fruit itself is governed by the word of the Lord. The olive may be full and the grape ripe, but the oil and the wine are never guaranteed. What we extract is not a natural entitlement, but a daily mercy—quietly renewed, and often taken entirely for granted.