Over the last twenty-nine years our devotional publication has gone through many changes. The first issue, in May of 1996, was a simple, one-page, text-only devotional published weekly via e-mail to subscribers. It is now full-color, multi-page, and published monthly—on the 15th—at our web site. It is available in three formats: including two PDFs, one in landscape, for easier viewing on screen (Reflections’ native and preferred format), and one in portrait, for printing.
May 2025 Issue
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We must stop our bad habit of thinking of God from our perspective, from our example, from our non-omnipotent standard. We are born from the soil and we have a habit of thinking from the soil. Our God is not of the soil; He is not like us. And He is not just “better” than us, but supernaturally, other-worldly, incomprehensibly supreme. We can pray to Him and trust Him by that measure.
He is El Shaddai, Almighty God!
The two-fold purpose of Reflections by the Pond is to, first of all, bring glory and honor to God the Father and His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and then to build up believers into a higher—and deeper—level of sanctification.
And by His grace we will.
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