Welcome To THE ILLUSTRATOR What to Do When Life Becomes Too Much November 10, 2025 …those who suffer he delivers in their suffering; he speaks to them in their affliction. ~ Job 36:15 NIV ~ Did you ever wonder why the shower is the place where ideas filter through, insights pop up, and solutions appear? That happened to me the other day. I turned off the faucet and my mind took off in ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE ILLUSTRATOR Algebra, Love and Life November 9, 2025 For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. ~ Luke 6:38b NIV ~ When I was a boy I was great at math. I learned to add and subtract playing cards around the kitchen table with my family. In grade school I went over the multiplication tables again and again until I had them memorized. Then when I got to High School I had to take Alg ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE ILLUSTRATOR The Forest of the Shire November 6, 2025 ...for the tree is known and recognized and judged by its fruit. ~ Matthew 12:33b AMP ~ Classic Illustrator "Either make the tree sound (healthy and good), and its fruit sound (healthy and good), or make the tree rotten (diseased and bad), and its fruit rotten (diseased and bad); for the tree is known and recognized and jud ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Leave the Barren Desert By: Alice Burnett --------------------------------- November 6, 2025 Years ago I was really thirsty for God. My husband and I had moved from a young, thriving church in a frontier town in northern British Columbia to a tiny village further south in the province, where it seemed only the older generation attended church. The people were pleasant enough, but we missed th ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE ILLUSTRATOR The Desire November 5, 2025 O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water. ~ Psalms 63:1 NIV ~ My seven dogs love to be wherever I am.  They would even go everywhere with me in my car if I would let them. They are forever watching to see what we are doing next, what I may want of them or ar ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE ILLUSTRATOR Perpetual Guidance November 3, 2025 I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. ~ John 10:10 ESV ~ For those of us who are Called, the path to discipleship means only one thing: following the Master’s footsteps, at any cost and through any road! We thus spend our whole lives learning to freely choose Christ over self. While the latter works for its own glory, Christ will teach us th ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE ILLUSTRATOR Glass November 2, 2025 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. ~ 1 Corinthians 13:12 ESV ~ "When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known."  ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE ILLUSTRATOR When What You Fear the Most Becomes Reality... October 31, 2024 What I feared has come upon me; what I dreaded has happened to me... ~ Job 3:25 NIV ~ Before this devotional goes any farther, please understand that I am truly a Halloween grinch. My family and I have never celebrated Halloween, for it is a holiday that honors, not Christ, but the dark side; and I do not wish to honor the de ...Continue Reading

Welcome ToTHE ILLUSTRATORThe Wag of His TailOctober 29, 2025But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you...~ Job 12:7 NIV ~   “But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you. Which of all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this? In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind." ( ...Continue Reading

Welcome ToTHE ILLUSTRATORNow What?October 27, 2025But Jesus said, "Do not stop him, for no one who does a mighty work in My Name will be able soon afterward to speak evil of Me."~ Mark 9:39 ESV ~   "John said to Him, 'Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your Name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us.' But Jesus said, 'Do not stop him, for no one who does a mighty work in My Name will be able soon afterward to speak evil of Me. For the one who is not against u ...Continue Reading