Month: January 2026

From the beginning, God’s desire has never been sacrifice. It has always been obedience.

In the Garden, God did not give humanity a system of good and bad to manage, nor did He ask them to prove their devotion through effort or performance. He gave a single instruction: obey. “Do not eat from this tree.”

The tree itself was the knowledge of good and evil, and in reaching for it, humanity revealed a pattern that continues to this day: the desire to define righteousness on our own terms rather than trust God’s voice. God’s invitation was simple: trust Me. But humanity reached instead for understanding, for control, for the ability to determine good and evil apart from Him.

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There’s a moment in Joshua 5 when Joshua meets an angel of the Lord and asks, “Are you for us or for our enemies?” The angel’s response is simply, “No. I have come as commander of the army of the Lord.”

I feel the fear of the Lord every time I read it. It’s a sobering reminder that God does not exist to validate my sides, my camps, or my causes. Rather, I was created to co-labor with Him to see His will, His ways, and His truth lived out on earth.

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