Category: Devotions

• Get Up

  Proverbs 24:16, “For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again, But the wicked will stumble in calamity.

  Getting back up is hard. It’s extremely hard. I mean, what do you do when you wake up in the morning and the day before was a total flop? These are some of the things that have been banging around in my head for the past few days.

  But the thing not to do is to beat yourself up about it. Then it’s a lose lose. If we are supposed to love others as we love ourselves, it’s not exactly in our favor to kick ourselves while we’re down. The thing to do is to accept God’s love, mercy, and grace, and know that God fully anticipates the fact that we will fall (not that that necessarily has to mean sin).

  A righteous man may fall seven times, but the wicked stumbles. It’s like the wicked is trying desperately to avoid what he has coming. A righteous man, however, accepts his fate, learns, grows, and gets back up.

  So what are you waiting for?

  Get up!

  November 8, 2025

  Christianity, Hope, Jesus, Perseverance, Proverbs, Righteous

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• Sleep and Sacrifice

  For over a month now, I’ve been committing to at least 7–8 hours of sleep a night. It’s been incredible—and frankly, life-changing. The problem is that it’s also a constraint that’s preventing a good amount of work from being accomplished.

  Someone recently made the point to me that “death to self” includes sacrificing sleep much of the time. However, I’m adopting the perspective that God gave me this body with a need for a certain amount of sleep, and getting 8 hours isn’t fleshly—it’s God’s design and creation. It’s simply a constraint I’m meant to work within.

  I also don’t have kids, so…

  We’ll see how much my perspective changes then.

  October 25, 2025

  Christianity, Discipline, Sacrifice, Sleep

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• The Ultimate Pendulum

  John 3:30 — “He must increase, but I must decrease.”

  It’s a pendulum, and it can only swing one direction at a time. Either Jesus is increasing and I’m decreasing, or it’s the other way around. What fascinates me about this is the question: what if God has called me to build or create something? Isn’t expression the act of exuding oneself? Is it possible to let Jesus increase in my life by embracing who He’s made me to be and simply going for it?

  There are so many practical things I still want to figure out. I want to learn how to walk, talk, think, build, and refine the way Jesus wants me to. To let Him increase in my life as He works through me in the way He chooses.

  Ultimately, God has already given us countless commands in His Word to obey. And honestly, that’s enough. In striving to obey, we’ll feel the flesh dying while we sense Jesus rising up in all kinds of situations.

  Let’s commit to this pendulum.
  Let’s let Him increase a hundredfold.

  October 18, 2025

  Christianity, Devotional, Humility, Jesus, John

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