Still full of sap — God’s purpose doesn’t retire. I love the picture this passage gives us. The righteous will flourish like palm trees. They will grow strong like the cedars of Lebanon. They will flourish in the courts of our God. But here’s my favorite part: “Even in old age they will still produce

I’m sitting here, chewing on a verse. Isaiah wrote it to people much older than me, but it hits me differently when I realize what previously defined me in my job is . . . gone. Am I the same person? Do I still have value? “Even to your old age I will be the

“To those who reside as strangers, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, who are chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with His blood:” — 1 Peter 1:1–2 NASB2020 Notice that Peter starts by describing who these