Abiding In Him Devotional Archives

Despise Not Small Beginnings

Jimmy Larche / August 10, 2025

The Lord rejoices to see the work begin. Not when it’s finished. Not when it’s famous. Not when it goes viral. When it starts.

I don’t know if Solomon sang hymns or praise choruses, but what we can infer from Scripture is that his worship motioned heaven to earth.

Corrie ten Boom wasn’t a soldier, a politician, or a public figure. She was a watchmaker—a quiet, devout Christian during the Holocaust.

In the 1992 Summer Olympics, Derek Redmond, a British sprinter, lined up for the 400-meter semi final race with one dream.

Trusting God: Desperation can be experienced in different ways — addictive behaviors, toxic relationships, grief or sudden loss.

God’s deliverance isn’t about Ahab’s righteousness—he was a notoriously wicked king. It’s about God’s desire to reveal Himself.

Solomon’s wisdom became legendary. We could say he was the G.O.A.T. in terms of wise leaders. But he didn’t finish well.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. won the 2001 Pepsi 400 at the same racetrack where he lost his father on the final lap of the Daytona 500.

We are all Mephibosheth—broken, spiritually crippled, and far from the King. We are incapable of “walking” rightly before God on our own.

The problem with assumptions is that not only are we judging others wrongfully, but we are failing to go deeper with people, and God.