Worship can quietly shift from being something we offer to God to something we perform for ourselves or others. Excellence is not the problem. The problem is when the experience becomes the goal — when the feeling becomes the measure of truth. When that happens, we keep the glow, but lose the weight.

Day 5 — Joy That Holds in the Dark Key Verse (ESV) “ Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines... yet I will...

Picture your heart as a sacred place. Every day, whether you know it or not, you carry wood to the altar of your desires. And the fire consumes what you lay on it.