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Yoder: To Touch the Hem

Pause to pray for a hurt you’ve buried. Forgive someone who’s wronged you. Extend kindness to another “outcast” in your life.

Jesus said that we should be as wise as serpents and as harmless as doves. That implies the need for wisdom and tact in bearing witness to Him.

God is at work in the big business of altering our lives.

After coming to know Christ as Savior, unfortunately we often then skim along the surface with Him.

Now is the time for all of us to rise from the basements of our souls.

Take a step toward Him. Pray that desperate prayer.

New lives mean change, and change is daunting. The unknown can paralyze us. But when it’s from the Lord, it’s also transformational.

The person in the twilight of life who is rallying, may even realize that they love more than they thought possible.

There was also Another who went to Bethlehem that first Christmas. God was at Bethlehem.

We often concentrate on things of little importance and do not see big, important things.