I watched a video recently of a boy opening a gift, and it reminded me of God.  As the boy opened the gift and realized what it was, emotion rolled over him.  His shoulders dropped, his eyes filled up with tears, and he hugged his new mom and dad.  He had been adopted.  He held tightly in his hands ordinary paper with…

One of the unseen blessings of memorizing Scripture is that doing this opens the door to our souls. Solomon showed this when he said that a man is what he thinks in his heart (Prov. 23:7). What is perhaps even more remarkable is that what we memorized when we were children is so much a part of what we are today. We…