Do you really believe God would let you slip from His care? If He let this happen, He would invalidate His infallible Word.

Your decision is not going to ruin God’s day. Neither is your decision going to separate you from God. He is in you! It is not possible to miss Him when you are trusting Him.

The people you speak to softly, those you are quietest around, are the friends closest to your heart. God’s quietness is not distance, disfavor, or indifference. 

Most compelling is that I can determine a course of action toward resolution and relief today. Even a cursory assessment of my options declare the plans I should adopt. Right away. I can do this….  

All of the personal options I listed earlier are God-given abilities, but please note: God is not mentioned in my listing of personal resources. 

My history, training, resume, and abilities confirm that I have resources at my disposal.

In time, their wings grow stronger and their independence more confident.

God’s opinion of you should be the definition of self you cling to. Seeing yourself as He sees you must define who you are.

If you have satisfactorily defined your identity by the stamp of earthly success, finding motivation to redefine your identity—by any other standard—seems nonsensical. 

The intriguing thing about identity is how tempting it can be to define who you are by all we have discussed and fail to consider the opinion of God, the architect of your soul. I wonder what His opinion is of who you are? 

The alligator turned, followed, swimming after my fly. I kept retrieving. The gator’s speed increased, creating a wake. 

It is hard for me to embrace one man’s development while a few million others suffer and die. 

I would have instructed Jesus to heal the crippled guy rather than walking past him en route to worship.

Do you realize that while God was devoting His energies to craft Moses’ character, an entire generation of Israel died in Egypt doing hard labor? 

You were created to connect with God and represent His life in and through you.

I realize that a financial report to the directors is a different discussion than a Bible study. But trusting that God’s Spirit is living through you to accomplish what’s on His mind is just as valid a ministry in the boardroom as it is in the Bible study.

Your profession is what you get paid to do. Your calling is what you were made to do.

God does not claim to be incrementally present one moment and absent the next. He claims to be constant right now.

Periodically, Wade writes a blog. There are a few posts that take you into the labyrinthine hallways of MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, but every post takes you to another place--a profound place--only the soul of Wade can go. 

Without vision and revelation we do not have the necessary elements to be focused, healthy people.