Lessons of the Leash
Shirlee Abbott
“Show me your ways, LORD, teach me your paths.” Psalm 25:4 (NIV)
“Six days do your work, but on the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and so that the slave born in your household and the foreigner living among you may be refreshed.” Exodus 23:12 (NIV)
“Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?” John 4:29 (NIV)
“God has made everything beautiful for its own time.” Ecclesiastes 3:11a (NLT)
“Be strong, and let your heart be courageous, all you who put your hope in the LORD.” Psalm 31:24 (CSB)
“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves.” Philippians 2:3 (NIV)
“Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the LORD, ‘He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.’” Psalm 91:1-2 (NIV)
“But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.” 2 Corinthians 12:9 (NIV)
“Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill his promises to her!” Luke 1:45 (NIV)
“He says, ‘Be still, and know that I am God.’” Psalm 46:10a (NIV)
“Freely you have received; freely give.” Matthew 10:8b (NIV)
“Show me your ways, LORD, teach me your paths.” Psalm 25:4 (NIV)
“‘Go,’ [Jesus] told him, ‘wash in the Pool of Siloam’ (this word means ‘Sent’). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.” John 9:7 (NIV)
“We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God …” 2 Corinthians 10:5 (NIV)
Lord, I am safe with You. Your shelter and shadow comfort me in my loneliness. I will proclaim You are my refuge and my fortress; therefore, I will not fear (Psalm 91:2). As a refuge, You are my...