Dale Cresap's blog

Do you think that someone’s words are a true indicator of their heart? By your words you shall be justified or condemned. Yet thoughts precede words and are a more certain measure.

My word says that I send rain and sun on the just and on the unjust. Do you think of sun as good and rain as bad and interpret this to mean that there is joy and sorrow in the life of believer and unbeliever alike?

If someone comes to you in distress to share their troubles with you they often complain about some person who has wronged them. If you decline to enter into unrighteous judgment against this person are you accused of being uncaring?

Debt can be a form of bondage but I would have you to be free and unencumbered, owing no man anything but your debt of love.

Has your mind ever wandered in daydreams? This is a means of escape, a way to disengage and be absent in mind even as you are present in body.

Have you ever heard stories of kidnapped children? These are heart-rending and inevitably traumatic for the children, but no matter how much they have suffered, the parents always want them back.

Do you look for satisfaction in everything you do? If you are hungry you can eat until you are satisfied, and this is a good place to stop, but not everyone does. There are many areas of your life in which the right amount is necessary and beneficial but to continue is detrimental.

Is there an ending for every beginning? Yet endings are usually followed by another beginning. Does this seem like an endless cycle to you, in which one lesson follows another, and one grade follows another, and the same is true for trials and character refinement?

In most schools material is presented according to a curriculum. This organizes a complex course of study into individual lessons. There is too much to assimilate all at once, but the curriculum divides it into manageable pieces.

One thing have I desired of the Lord, to behold the beauty of the Lord. Your culture has a strong but distorted sense of beauty.