Author: Lia Smith

Galatians 6:2 tells us to “Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ” (NIV). For a long time, I was under the assumption that meant I was always supposed to hear a person’s story the whole way through, being a good team player and completing the entire project…Read more

“Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil” (Hebrew 5:13-14, NIV). In order for a young child to grow up, they need to move away from things…Read more

It was a fall evening when a friend wrote me to remind me that “God loves you so much, Lia… You are truly tethered to His heart. He’ll take care of everything.” I had seen this friend maybe two hours before and had point blank lied to him that everything was fine even though I…Read more

Jeremiah 18 talks about how God is the potter and we are the clay in his hands. The illustration was given to the prophet Jeremiah when he saw a potter sitting at his wheel with clay in his hands, molding it into something of value and worth. Jeremiah 18:3 says, “But the pot he was…Read more

“For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession” (Deuteronomy 7:6, NIV). This passage discusses how God chose the Israelites to be His even though He knew that…Read more

We have arrived at the last night of my mini series on 1 Peter 2:9. This verse is so full of what our identity in Christ looks like. The last part of this verse talks about how we are called “out of darkness into his wonderful light” (NIV). When I think about darkness, I first…Read more

“After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice: ‘Salvation belongs…Read more

Although we are unable to be considered holy by ourselves, Christ is our redemption and intercessor; therefore, we are called to holiness. In the Old Testament, God told the Israelites that “You are to be holy to me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be…Read more

So I looked through quite a few passages of the Bible tonight because 1 Peter 2:9 says that we are “a royal priesthood” and I wanted the next few devotionals to be all based off of that one verse. But then I got confused… I don’t want to create implications that aren’t in the Bible,…Read more

Every six years, Mother’s Day will fall on my Dad’s birthday; it’s an odd time trying to figure out who we are supposed to celebrate and in what capacity. But there are many days when I come to the realization that every day might be different if I didn’t have my parents. And just as…Read more