Crosswalk: The Devotional

Peter suggests that we can suffer for doing good, or we can suffer for doing bad. Either way, though, we suffer.

God spoke the great words of Jeremiah 29:11 to His people not when times were easy, but when times were very hard.

In our culture of immediacy, having patience is even more difficult and out of reach. We are used to multitasking and packing each day with so much busyness that we seldom have time to hear our own voices.

The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me (Matt. 26:11). The woman with the alabaster jar knew something that I don't fully grasp...

We all know that patience isn't easy, or fun. What it is, though, is the path of the wise. Or, perhaps it's better to say the "non-path," since it usually involves a decision to do nothing for a while, to be still and know that you are not God, to reflect, or to strategize.