November 08 2011, 10:16 am | Clara Jones
“Mommy, I wanna hold ya!” Dawson would say when his little legs got too tired to walk anymore. It always made me smile as I would reach down and pick up my little toddler and begin to carry him in my arms. He really meant he wanted to be held, of course, and there was no way I could refuse his adorable little plea! I cannot help but feel that our helpless cries must have the same effect on our Heavenly Father. God knows that we are destitute sinners, unable to please Him, and totally...
October 10 2011, 7:52 am | Clara Jones
Not long ago, when I was talking with some friends about some of the natural disasters that have been taking place around the world and about why God allows such things to happen, I was rather taken back by a statement that one of them made. He said that he didn’t even try to understand the ways of God, that he was afraid to even go there for fear of what he might find out. I have thought much about his comment, and it has...
August 22 2011, 3:31 pm | Clara Jones
A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud. 2 Peter 2:22b There was once a little pig that desperately longed to be a princess. She looked at herself and was disgusted by the filth that she lived in, but because she so enjoyed wallowing in the mud, she could not seem to keep herself clean, no matter how hard she tried. One day she heard that she had been summoned by the king and that she had better prepare herself to...
June 21 2011, 8:39 am | Clara Jones
How do you rate Christian maturity? Do you believe that it has anything to do with you? I mean, when you are truly honest with yourself, do you find yourself either feeling like you have done something to be farther down the road than other Christians or feeling like other Christians have done something to make themselves more spiritual than you are? Recently I sat down at the computer to help Kristina, our nine-year-old, write a paper. To my dismay, a huge warning flashed up on the screen saying that we had several viruses and that...
May 31 2011, 8:26 am | Clara Jones
For years, the Christian life for me was about trying to please God and working very hard to get rid of sin in my life. I thought that what God wanted was for me to pursue holiness and to serve Him. I believed that God created us to glorify Him, and that to do so, I must be like Him. And I truly tried to do so. But I failed. I failed at everything I thought He expected of me. About ten years ago, I realized that I just didn’t know how...