Life can feel like one crisis after another. It must have felt that way throughout David’s forty years on the throne of Israel. How do we find the space needed to set about spiritual growth and renewal? David’s psalms may hold a key.
Can you imagine sacrificial generosity in the midst of extreme suffering giving rise to overwhelming joy? While this may surprise us, it’s exactly what we find in a moving story about an ancient community of faith. This beautiful example has the power to renew our modern sensibilities about the meaning of life.
Essential to spiritual growth is going out of our way to care for the practical needs people face. We can sacrificially enter in to other people’s suffering because Jesus did so for us at great cost.
In his final words, Jesus prays for a glory that will last forever. True glory, the kind that doesn’t fade or falter, is born from suffering but built to share, transforming our lives into a meaningful mission for the good of others.
We can renew our hope by fixing our eyes on a God who would face the shame of his own death and embrace glory of his own resurrection so that we can be brought back into a living relationship with himself.
Friendship is the antidote to the poison of loneliness. What does real friendship look like? How do we find it? How do we become true friend to others? The heartwarming story of David and his friend, Jonathan, provides compelling answers to these questions.