Jesus hears your heart cries. When all strategies fail. All pretense blows away. All reasons to commend you are dismissed. Below all that precarious house of cards that is your life. Jesus sees you and he hears you. You drop your pride. You let down your guard. Your heart cries for mercy: “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” He replies, “I do. Come here. I call you to myself.”
Have Mercy on Me!
March 27, 2022 • Gerrit Dawson • Mark 10:46–50
Remove This Thorn!
May 1, 2022 • Gerrit Dawson • 2 Corinthians 12:7–10
Jesus tells us, “My grace is sufficient for you.” It’s enough. It satisfies. Your lack of strength opens you to receive my strength. If you could live on your own without me, you would. And you would miss out on what truly makes for life. You would end up with nothing but yourself and you would be lost. My way leads to life. Trust me, this narrow path is hard but it is true. I am leading the very creation through the groans and pains of making all things new. Trust me. The thorns of Satan are meant to lead you to my cross of life. What Satan means to ruin you, I use to take you deeper into myself.
Who Are You, Lord?
April 24, 2022 • Gerrit Dawson • Acts 9:1–9
Salvation is the work of God in our lives. I can’t make you repent and believe. You can’t make yourself repent and believe. This is God’s work. If you want it, that’s God prompting you to want it. But that doesn’t mean you’re out of the equation. You want God to show himself to you? Ask him. Are you tired of kicking against God’s reality and getting smacked and bloodied? Turn to the Lord Jesus. Embrace him as he embraces you.
Stay with Us!
April 17, 2022 • Gerrit Dawson • Luke 24:28–35
There’s a step of faith that carries you across from where you are into an experience of the risen Christ. If there’s a spark, would you fan it into flame with faith? He’s real. He’s risen. And he’s here. Lord Jesus, stay with us! For the hours fly by and we are far from home. Too much breaks. Too many leave. Our grip is fragile and our hope is frail. Stay with us. Be known to us. Open our eyes to see you ever with us. This day, join us to yourself anew in the sharing of the bread and the cup.