Walking the Way: A daily devotional

Joel 2:13 Rend your heart,     and not your garments; return to the Lord your God,     for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love;     and He relents from punishing. Thought for the day – Evidence that demand a verdict Firstly, apologies for nicking the title of a well-known book by Josh McDowell for the title of today’s thought. But I think today’s verse is asking us a really important question about how to demonstrate that we are repenting from the sin God has highlighted in our lives. God asks the people through Joel, to tear their hearts not their clothes.  And it got me thinking about how many people say the sinners prayer, give Jesus their hearts and then carry on like nothing has ever happened. And I find myself asking the question what would I need to see that would show me someone was truly repentant and wanted to follow Jesus? What evidence can I see that demands me to make a verdict about the chan...

Daniel 4:1   Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, for all his works are right and his ways are just; and those who walk in pride he is able to humble.   Thought for the day – Examining yourself Today's story is possibly one of my favourite stories in the Old Testament, it's the story of Nebuchadnezzar and how he was driven mad as a result of his arrogance, then restored to his place, and in the process wrote this amazing letter explaining what happened to him and giving praise to God. It's a story how the most powerful man in the world came to understand that actually he wasn't the most powerful being in the world, that he was under the authority of Yahweh, the King of heaven. And one of the things that strikes me about this story is that Nebuchadnezzar was warned, he'd had a dream that he would be cast out, the dream was a tree being cut down, a magnificent tree being cut down to size, we are not kings, I think that's blatantly...