Burning Question:
Who believed in you before you believed in yourself?
Morning Devotional:
The Trial Run
Our church had a Valentine’s banquet last weekend, and my daughter Kalvary was in charge of the menu and the cooking. The menu was simple enough—salad, rice, carrots, chicken with a white sauce. Nothing too fancy.
She decided to do a trial run on Wednesday.
The result? Almost all bad.
The sauce didn’t turn out. The chicken wasn’t great. She tried making the rice in a roaster—the top was mush, and the bottom wasn’t even cooked.
I was stressed for her. I was worried.
She wasn’t.
She had learned some things.
So Thursday night, she tried again. Everything improved. Adjustments were made. Lessons were applied. Then Friday night—showtime. And it was amazing.
It struck me how differently we handled the failure. I saw disaster. She saw development.
That’s often how God works in our lives. What feels like failure is often just a trial run. A lesson. An adjustment.
James says, “Consider it pure joy… whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.”
Testing produces something. It teaches us what doesn’t work. It refines us. It prepares us for “showtime.”
-Ryan
Kinship Bible Quiz!
Question: Who Said, this is none other than the house of God and this is the gate of Heaven?
Answer: Jacob Genesis 28:17
Storytime: Little Girl Attacks Zebedee