Devotions by John Ortberg’s book, The Me I Want to Be Being a Christian doesn’t cover up bad work. We should do our very best, with all our might, that will honor Him. . “If I cannot experience the Spirit in the work I am doing today, then I can’t experience the Spirit today at…

Devotions from John Ortberg’s book, The Me I Want to Be How do we find God in our work? How do we allow our work to move us toward the person God wants us to be? Jesus must have valued work for he spent more than ¾ of his life as a carpenter. God has…

Devotions from John Ortberg’s book, The Me I Want to Be Sometimes we want to change people but we must remember that only God can touch the deepest place of another’s soul. We may think we can intimidate, lecture, flatter, reason, cajole, reward, to get the desired behavior from another but we can’t touch the…

Devotions for John Ortberg’s book, The Me I Want to Be We all need difficult people in our lives to help us grow and become the best version of ourselves.  Other people don’t create our spirit; they reveal our spirit.  If we need to develop love, then some unlovable people will be our greatest challenge.…

Devotions from John Ortberg’s book, The  Me I Want to Be Our relationships with others grows deep when we are real and honest about the sin that is common to us all. When we can step into openness and stop pretending, we will find ourselves coming alive. Hiddenness is the enemy of flourishing. When someone…

 Devotions from John Ortberg’s book, The Me I Want to Be  We were designed to flourish in connectedness.  Connectedness brings gifts.  Who are the life-giving people around us?  Who are the ones who notice us? Who know what we love and fear? Who do little things with great love?  Mother Teresa used to say, do…

Devotions from John Ortberg’s book The Me I Want To Me. As the body is nourished by food so our souls are nourished by others. More than we realize, we are shaped by people and they bring us much encouragement.  What distinguishes happy people from others less happy is the presence of rich, deep, joy-producing,…

Devotions from John Ortberg’s book, The Me I Want to Be There is a unique way in which we experience the presence of the Lord when we are alone.  God wants to give us a sanctuary , a place where we can be ourselves before Him.  Abraham Kuyper wrote about the similarity between the structure…

Devotions from John Ortberg’s book, The Me I Want to Be “The one pair of eyes into which you can never gaze is your own.”  There are parts of ourselves we will never see without a mirror or outside help.  In one sense we know ourselves better than anyone in the world as we have…

Devotions from John Ortberg’s book, The Me I Want to Be Sin is a word not often thought about seriously in our day. But sin is a deadly force to us because it takes us out of the flow of the Spirit.  Sin keeps us from becoming the person God wants us to become. All…