Footsteps to Zion

Imagine your life was like a car. Throughout one’s life, one embarks on small journeys that are supposed to lead him to his ultimate destination. But whether or not you get to your eternal destination is determined by one thing - where God is in your "car." Is He outside? Is God watching us drive our lives from the outside like a spectator in a car race? He can only watch but He has no access to what is going on inside of us. We don't hear His voice. We go on in our lives without God in the picture. And the only thing He is expected to do is to cheer us on. Those who are in this situation are like cars going around in circles, lacking a clear direction and purpose. Consuming gas but not getting where they were meant to go. Travelling but not getting there. This happened for the Israelites in a time when they had no king so everyone just did what was right in their own eyes (Judges 21:25). The same can happen with us today. If God is outside of our car, we wil...

The Bible says that man is created in God’s image (Genesis 1:27). This means that we have certain features and attributes that resemble God’s. One particular commonality worth studying is our eyes and God’s eyes. Just as humans have eyes, God has eyes too. However, God’s eyes see and do so much more than what humans can see and do. THE EYES OF GOD SEE EACH AND EVERY ONE. Nothing escapes His eyes because He is actively watching. He does not miss out on any detail. You know how it is when you are seeing but not really paying attention? You see but you miss out on many details. However, with the Lord He is actively watching everything. He sees everything that is going on. He sees across the whole world. He sees every single one of the 7.6 billion people in the world. In Genesis 16, we learn of the story of Hagar, the maidservant of Sarah. She fled to the wilderness because Sarah dealt harshly with her. But even there, the Angel of the Lord found her and blessed her with a pro...

We love to hear stories of how God is a God of love, merciful, gracious, longsuffering and abounding in goodness and truth. While all of these are true, we must also realize that God is also described as a consuming fire (Hebrews 12:29). There is an aspect of God’s nature that is strong and powerful as fire , putting holy fear in our hearts. However, the fire of God may be one of the most misunderstood aspects of His nature. Man’s tendency is to stay away from fire as we think it will hurt us. But as we search the Scriptures about what the fire of God really is, we will come to understand that His fire is meant for perfecting us. First, the fire of God’s jealousy. “Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the Lord your God which He made with you, and make for yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which the Lord your God has forbidden you. For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God. ” (Deuteronomy 4:23-24) Here, the Lord’s jealousy was...