by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 31, 2023 | God's will
From 2016: God often “flips the script”…..As Jacob’s son Joseph told his jealous and deceitful brothers many years after their betrayal of him, “You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good” Genesis 50:20a. No matter that...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 17, 2022 | forgiveness, Trust
A family member of someone struggling with addiction asked me last week how she could ever trust the addict again. I said, “what makes you think you must?” In my study of the Bible I don’t find instruction that we are to trust other people. Again and...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 7, 2022 | forgiveness, repentance
I had written about Judas and his descent into despair and suicide after his betrayal of Jesus and about Peter’s response to the same sense of failure and betrayal. When one rejects condemnation from the enemy, embraces the convicting work of the Holy Spirit...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 6, 2022 | forgiveness
A friend told me about a young man, a veteran of the US’s Afghanistan war, who admitted having a great deal of anger and unforgiveness that led him to drunken rages. When she talked to him about about forgiveness he told her God had allowed him to not forgive....
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 1, 2022 | forgiveness
It is amazing how simply understanding why something that seemed so out of character and incomprehensible in the behavior of someone came to be gives one the freedom to finish the hard labor of forgiveness that has struggled to be born. Thank you, Lord, for your gifts...
