Genesis 16:13 She answered God by name, praying to the God who spoke to her, “You’re the God who sees me! “Yes! He saw me; and then I saw him!” People’s faith, my own included, can so quickly take a dive. Well, “quickly” is probably relative, since poor Sarai was already almost 75, and by […]
Read moreI’ve mentioned it before, but I wasn’t a good student. I did everything but study. I drove Intercape buses, I managed restaurants, and I even had my own irrigation business. Between all those activities, there was little time, or desire, for academics. My daughters, on the other hand, were the opposite. They probably take after […]
Read moreSometimes people send me lovely stories about how we just try to walk straight in our ordinary way. I received one from Peter, and I would like to share it with you: On a beautiful spring morning, I went for a walk in the mountains with my dogs. The bulbs were bursting from the mountain […]
Read moreMany people did not accept Jesus as the Saviour. To this day there are still Jews, especially the Orthodox Jews, who do not recognise Jesus as the Son of God who came to earth to die for humans’ sins. They’re still waiting for the coming of the One who will bring salvation, as predicted in […]
Read moreWhen I was employed at the factory, sometimes we had more than 80 people working for us at a time. When you have so many people working for you, you soon start playing the father or doctor role and mediator yourself. I liked to hire deaf people because it was a job they could do, […]
Read moreLife consists of choices. Early every morning I have to choose whether I’m going to get up or stay in bed. I have to decide whether I will start my day with God or not, and often life rushes by so quickly that life makes a choice on my behalf and I don’t get to […]
Read moreWhen things are going well, we hardly ever notice, but when things are hard, we quickly wonder why. We look for the cause of the hardship in what we did or didn’t do. We wonder if it might be someone else’s fault. Or we want to blame God. But recently we’ve found that bad things […]
Read moreI got up nice and early as usual and sat watching the sunrise. After reading my verse for the day, I pulled the laptop closer to write down my thoughts. That’s when I noticed that my bike was missing from its stand. A heavy darkness descended over me. Suddenly I thought of Renata’s brand-new, very […]
Read moreSuffering in your life puts on the brakes really hard. Suddenly, nothing is as important as the suffering you are facing. Running to the next meeting is stopped with one call. The conversation that couldn’t wait is quickly postponed. Even the boss is simply informed that you have a crisis and that he would have […]
Read moreA friend of mine in Namibia calls a spade a spade. The other day, someone drove up to him spoiling for a fight and challenged him with this question: “How can a loving God allow Covid to happen?” My friend responded straight-faced: “Who says God is a loving God?” That man’s self-importance was instantly deflated. […]
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