Faith vs. Fear

Ariel Allison Lawhon, She Reads Co-Director

"Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you."
Deuteronomy 31:6 (NIV)

Devotion:
Our pediatrician told me that my baby had a collapsed lung. The baby I'd given birth to just an hour earlier.

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the presence of faith."

They weren't the words I wanted to remember in that moment, but they came to me as I sat and listened to the doctor's news, jaw clenched and blinking back tears.

Storm

Written by Eric Reynolds

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For this devotional, please read John 6

When evening came…

We all experience “evenings”, times when the sun goes down and things get dark. We grow tired of working, always working, and there seems to be no rest. Hope fades as the darkness grows.

…his disciples went down to the lake

The lake in this case is Lake Tiberias, also known as the Sea of Galilee. It’s shaped like a harp, five miles wide and ten miles long, located in North Israel.

…where they got into a boat and set off across the lake for Capernaum.