by Grace Ann Oglesby | Aug 24, 2022 | Choosing God Instead of the World (Genesis 3), Love God Greatly Posts |
Deuteronomy 30 touched me deeply when I read it. It is a powerful passage in which Moses gave the Israelites final encouragement before he died. They had been wandering for forty years in the wilderness at this point, and I cannot imagine how tired and confused they...
by Grace Ann Oglesby | Jul 13, 2022 | Beautifully Surrendered (WOB), Love God Greatly Posts |
The story of Ruth and Naomi is a treasure. I sometimes do not realize how hard it must have been for both of these women. Naomi lost her two sons and husband, and Ruth lost her husband. For women in that day, this meant that their family name and property might not be...
by Grace Ann Oglesby | May 23, 2022 | Love God Greatly Posts, Trusting God in the Midst of Suffering (Lament) |
2021 was the hardest year of my life. It was a time when I experienced loss in many ways and felt the stinging pain of loneliness. The number one used phrase written in all my journals was this: I can’t tell anyone. I am alone. No one knew I was hurting because,...
by Grace Ann Oglesby | Apr 11, 2022 | Love God Greatly Posts, Our Security For Eternity (John) |
As I sat down to read our passage for today, I knew I should read the whole chapter to get the context of Jesus’s words, but the enemy was distracting me and pulling my desire and attention away from God’s Word. Anything else seemed to be a better use of my time....
by Grace Ann Oglesby | Mar 18, 2022 | Love God Greatly Posts, Our Security For Eternity (John) |
Have you been in a place for so long that you feel like there is no way out? That you are too far gone? That you are a lost cause, unseen by God and overlooked by others? In John 5, there is a story of a paralytic, a man who could not walk. He had been paralyzed for...