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Like A Thief In The Night

One night a thief broke into a house he thought was abandoned. As he walked then the darkened house with a flashlight he heard a voice from the kitchen that said, “Jesus is watching you.’ He stopped and said, “who’s there?” There was no answer so he thought he must have imagined it. But after he took a few more steps, the voice said again, “Jesus is watching you.” He decided to walk toward the voice, just before he entered the kitchen, he heard it again, “Jesus is watching you.” He swung the flashlight up and saw a parrot talking in a cage. The parrot said, Jesus is watching you.” The their turned flipped on the kitchen light and said, “Why you’re just a dumb bird.” The he looked in the corner of the room and seen a huge Rottweiler couching. And the parrot said “Get him Jesus.”

You might think it’s strange that Jesus would compare Himself to a thief. Of course, Jesus isn’t identifying with the sin of stealing. But just a good thief (that’s a oxymoron).that tries to sneak in quickly and quietly and escape with His people. That’s an accurate description of how Jesus will rapture His church.

We should all be living as if Jesus was crucified yesterday; raised from the dead this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.

1 Thessalonians 5: 1-4 tells us, “But concerning the times and the seasons, you have no need that anything be written to you. For you yourselves know that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night. For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come to then, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.

We should know these 4 things

1. Jesus will return, But we don’t know the exact day.

Can you imagine a thief sending you a text or email saying, “Just wanted to know that I’m coming to rob your house tonight.” Of course not. Thief’s don’t announce when they’re coming. They sneak in and out.

When I was growing up my Dad used to do military funerals when a soldier or veteran would pass away. My father would keep all the guns in his closet. One night when no one was home the house was broken into and all the M16 rifles were stolen. He was very upset because they trusted him with these rifles. For a long time there would be someone home, or a neighbor would be watching the house.

Jesus told us to keep watch, because you don’t know on what day the Lord will come. We need to understand, if the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and not let the house be broken into. So we must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you don’t expect him (Matthew 24:42-44),

There have been times throughout history when many people expected Jesus to return. We use the Gregorian calendar now, but when the Julian calendar turned from year 999 to the year 1000, people expected Jesus to come for a new millennium, the same was true in the year 2000. People were on their best behavior, In the year 1000 history says that worldly goods were sold and money was given to the poor. Prisoners were set free, and many traveled to Israel to wait for Jesus’s return,

In the second and third chapter of Revelation, Jesus gives messages to the 7 churches, which represent all churches of all time. When He wrote to the church at Philadelphia, He says, “Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I also will keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world to test those who live on the earth” (Revelation3:10).

In Luke 17 Jesus compares His return to a couple of Old Testament events. “Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the dat Noah entered the ark. Then the flood cane and destroyed them all. It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating, drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and suffer rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. It will be just like this on the day the Son Of Man is revealed (Luke 17:26-30).

Are You Ready?

What App Do I Spend Most Time On

The app I send most my time on is this one and listen to biblical teachers. Posting something everyday at the depth I write takes time, but it also allows me study the Bible more in depth.

Costly Faithfulness

Gilsonite Hydrocarbon Vein formed millions of years ago

We often sing about the faithfulness of God, celebrating it as a comforting blanket in our times of need. We rejoice that God never leaves us or forsakes us, never breaks His promises and never gives up on us. But we rarely stop to consider what the loyalty costed Jesus.

God’s faithfulness is not cheap. It is a costly, heavy, bleeding devotion.

When humanity walked away from God in the Garden of Eden, God’s justice demanded a penalty for sin, but His faithfulness demanded a rescue. To stay true to both His holy character and His rebellious people, God committed to a covenant that would ultimately cost Him everything.

The ultimate proof of His faithfulness is not found in our circumstantial comforts, but on the hill of Calvary. It cost the Father the tearing of His heart as He watched His Son suffer. It cost Jesus His blood, His breath, and a period of agonizing separation for the Father as He carried our shame.

God didn’t just nod politely at our brokenness from a safe distance. He paid the ultimate price to keep His promise to us. When we feel forgotten or wonder if God will hold true to His word in our lives, we must look at the cross. It is the receipt of His faithfulness that has been stamped in the scars of Jesus. He has already pain too high of a price to ever let us go.

This reminds me to stop measuring God’s goodness on how smooth my day goes. All I have to do is to look at the cross because it’s my permanent anchor of security.

Every day I ask myself if my daily walk with God is costing me everything. It has indeed cost me some friendships along the way, but that’s a small price to pay for His faithfulness. I know I need to stay faithful in times when it may be convenient not to be.

“He who didn’t spare His own Son but delivered Him up for is all, how would He not also with Him freely give us all things -Romans 8:32

Books And Movies That Inspire People To Travel

While I have not read any book that have inspired me to travel, I’m sure there are a few out there. I have always had a longing to find out my ancestors.
I know my roots of my father which is Hungarian. I was always curious about my mother’s heritage. Even though my maternal grandparents lived in the same town as me, I never knew them, or seen them. And when I asked about them, the subject would be dropped like a hot potato.

My mother had Native American roots, but she told me it was a different tribe than what it was. It wasn’t until later I began searching and only found I was more confused than I was when I started.

It wasn’t until recently I found out my Native American heritage -Choctaw Things are starting to come together and I am no longer confused.

But in the end it really doesn’t change who I am, or the things I have experienced. I am still God’s daughter.

The Key To Healing

Deer Creek reservoir -Utah

“Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you. Not as the world do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid” -John 14:27

We often view healing as a destination -a place we reach only after the pain stops, the relationship mends, or the diagnosis changes. We tell ourselves, “Once this is fixed, I will finally have peace.” That God’s economy of healing works in reverse. And the kingdom of heaven, peace is not the reward at the end of the marathon, it is fuel that allows us to run. Peace is not the result of healing, it is a very environment in which healing takes place.

When Jesus spoke the words of John 14, His disciples were on the brink of massive trauma. Jesus was about to be arrested and crucified. Their world was about to shatter. Yet Jesus did not promise them an immediate escape from the storm. Instead, he gave them a gift to sustain them through it: His peace.

The world offers a fragile piece that depend and entirely on comfortable circumstances. If things are good, we feel peaceful. But Jesus offers a supernatural peace -a shalom peace that represents wholeness, safety, and soundness. It is a peace that holds us together when everything around us is falling apart.

When our body, mind, or spirit needs healing, anxiety tells us to fixate on the wound. It demands that we fight, worry, and scramble for control. But the Holy Spirit invites us to Bree. When we quiet our hearts and accept Jesus’s peace, we stop picking at the wounds of our past and obsessing over the uncertainty of the future. Peace lowers our defenses. It silences the internal noise so we can hear the whisper of the Great Physician (Jesus). Healing begins the moment we stopped, fighting the storm and start trusting the One who sleeps through it.

Erasing Trends From History

I don’t even look back to history for a trend, because there is a crazy one going on right now. One that social media has popularized. It is the “cow septum look. People wear chunky circular horseshoes, clickers and cow horn shapes to intentionally resemble cattle.

The comparison to a farm tool as a bull ring installed through the nostril septum, to control unpredictable animals with minimal force.


I think it’s almost Ironic that most of them don’t see anything wrong with communism. Something that will control people and take away freedoms.

When God Feels Silent

Near San Rafael Swell in Utah

As human beings we need to learn to quiet the noise and hear God’s voice. Ecclesiastics 9:17 tells us,

“The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the shouting of a ruler among fools.”

We as a world we are in constant competition for our attention. Every moment offers another notification, another trending topic, another voice trying to shape our thoughts and pull away our focus. But it’s not only the natural world that is fighting for our time and energy scripture teachers that there is a supernatural war happening around us, a battle for our affection, our allegiance, and our discernment.

That’s why our spiritual clarity build harder to find when the world gets noisier. Silence from God is often not absence. It is a signal that something else has grown too loud.

There is a strategy in the noise.

C.S. Lewis, in his book The Screwtape Letters, imagined the voice of the enemy describing hell as occupied by noise, with a mission to make the whole universe a noise in the end.

His words capture a biblical truth. The enemy (Satan) is determined to distract us. He wants to drown out wisdom with volume. He knows that a noisy soul becomes a confused soul, and confusion, weekends our ability to hear God clearly.

The only way to combat this noise is to let the Word of God tune our ears and heart to the truth.

Psalm 119:105 reminds us that God‘s word is a “lamp to our feet and a light to our path.” Without it, the noise becomes overwhelming, with it our steps grow steady again.

In 1 Kings 19, the prophet Elijah was discouraged and desperate to hear from God. So God instructed him to stand on a mountain and wait. What came next with loud, dramatic, and powerful.

A great wind toward the mountains apart, but the Lord was not in the wind. An earthquake shook the ground, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. A fire blaze before Elijah, but the Lord was not in the fire.

Then came something entirely different -a gentle whisper. A quiet voice carried on stillness.

God chose to speak in a whisper to remind Elijah and us that His voice can be missed when we are only looking for Him in the loud and dramatic.

We very seldom tune everything else out and listen for that gentle whisper.

I seem to always hear God when I’m in nature, and everything else is silent.

The world is filled with resources meant to teach and encourage us. Whether at the sermon, a devotional, study books, podcasts, or conversations, or even this blog. I see this resources as gifts. But none of them can take the place of the Bible.

God’s Word is not commentary.

It’s not a suggestion. It’s not background noise. It is the verse source of truth.

We must be careful not to replace the living Word of God with reflections about it. Proverbs 4:24 reminds us, ‘Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” There is no person who is perfect, any resource we learn from can make mistakes. Everything we believe as truth needs to be align with God’s Word. I work diligently to share with you the true Word of God, but I a human and can make mistakes.

Through every resource we use to teach us we need to pursue and prioritize getting into God’s Word above anything else.

Hebrews 4:12 tells us that, “The Word of God is alive and active.” It cuts through confusion, exposes lies, strengthens faith, and creates clarity, where the world creates noise.

Outdated Technology I Miss

I miss when there were cassettes or compact discs in every vehicle. The fact that I could buy music and It was something physical I could hold and it was I could get the music I loved. I read somewhere that it was done to save auto makers money and integrate streaming services.

What’s The Excuse Iv’e Heard Lately

Many people make excuses, and some of them are justified, like a sudden illness. But I think people use excuses as a defense mechanism to protect their ego, avoid negative consequences, or even shift blame. It helps people feel right and shields them from feelings of shame.

I would rather someone tell me they don’t want to do something than making us excuses.

There is actually a psychologist behind excuse giving. These are:

Ego protection: Excuses safeguard a person’s self-image by making failure feel like the fault of circumstance rather than a flaw.

Displacement of responsibility: Many people externalized blame onto time constraints, other people, or unexpected events to avoid criticism.

Avoidance of change: It often signals a fear of the unknown or a lack of motivation to put in the required effort.

When someone asks us, “Do you want…” most excuses over explain why they don’t want to. Just saying “I can’t or “I don’t want to” is sufficient. I would rather get a simple reason than them telling me making excuses, or saying yes and then not doing it at all.

Your Energy Is Your Currency

Desert View of Book-cliff Mountains

Where we invest our focus dictates our returns. Our energy is an finite, non refundable resource and treating it with the same rigor as a financial budget is the ultimate life hack of well-being and productivity.

When we begin treating our daily capacity as a nonrefundable asset we begin to:

Pay attention: every time we give something focus, we are buying an experience. We need to spend it on things that will pay us back.

Protect our balance: Just like a bank account we have to guard it against unwarranted drains. Not everyone or every situation is worthy of our time.

Budget intentionally: We need to allocate our physical, mental, and emotional stamina toward what fosters growth, clarity, and purpose.

If we want to maximize our energy currency, we have to pay attention to what drains our energy. And direct our energy towards projects and goals we want to invest in.

Are We Shaped By Our Experiences or By Who We Are

A believe both external action and internal character shapes who we are. Experiences shape our perspective and skill set, it fundamentally who we are. Our core values, empathy, and our moral compass determines how we navigate those experiences.

I believe character can endure profound hardships and be saved by our resilience. The two are deeply intertwined: experiences test and refine who we are, but our internal identity dictates meanings we extract from those experiences.

The Fire Of God

The Burning Bush

The Bible Has lots to say about “fire.” The word fire is used 549 times in 506 verses throughout the Bible. God use fire to execute judgment upon evil. God has executed fire to get the attention of Moses. God communicated His message to His people when the glory cloud came down upon the tabernacle in the wilderness wandering of the Israelites.

When God’s presence was manifested by fire all the people could see that God was on the scene.

In 1 Kings 18 it mentions of a time when the country had turned to idolatry and their hearts were very cold towards God and Elijah who came along with a proposition. Elijah said, “How long will you falter between two opinions? If the Lord is God follow Him, but if Baal, follow him.” Then Elijah put forth another proposition to the “prophets” of Baal. In 1 Kings 18:23-24 he said, “Let them therefore give us two bulls for themselves, and cut it into pieces, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under, and I will dress the other bull, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under it. You call on the name of your god and I will call on the Lord’s name. The God who answers by fire, let him be God. All the people answered and said, it is well spoken.”

Then the fire of the Lord fell.

Where is the fire today?

Today, I think it is not a physical location but a spiritual presence manifested through the Holy Spirit. The fire of God is within our hearts.

Historically, manifestations of God‘s fire range from the burning bush on Mount Sinai to the tongues of fire on the day of Pentecost. Today, people view this fire as a symbol of spiritual passion, guidance, and purification that moves whenever prayer and worship occurs. And tongues of fire as something evil. But the Bible says nothing about tongues of fire being evil and I believe God has the power to do anything.

Acts 2:3 describes fire resting on the people, rather than hovering above the city itself. Tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. If you believe in the Bible or in God, it is still possible.