More Training; January 10, 2026

Posted on January 11, 2026 by jgarrott

Deuteronomy 8:5 Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you.

I was torn in reading this, whether to write on verse 3, that Jesus quoted to the devil when He was tempted to misplaced priorities, or on this one, but I settled on this one because of our current theme of Discipleship Training. As I mentioned back on the 2nd, Japanese doesn’t have a good direct translation for “discipline,” as it is used here, and so says “train.” This verse is quoted in Hebrews 12, which has long been a favorite chapter of mine. God’s discipline/training is life-long, because we don’t reach perfection on this earth, and are remarkably foolish. God allows all sorts of things to come into our lives to teach us that we’ve got to depend on Him, because we can’t go it alone. To go back to verse 3, we don’t live because of the material, which we ourselves can manage to some degree, but by what God says. After all, He spoke the universe into being, as it says in Genesis 1. To live successfully, we have to listen obediently to God, relating to the material as He directs and not just listen to our physical appetites. We don’t do that very well, so God has to remind us of the consequences of ignoring Him. That’s all a part of the “trouble” Jesus mentioned that we would have in this world. (John 16:33) We need to keep our eyes fixed on Him and remember that He doesn’t allow anything in our lives that He can’t use for our good, if we will submit it, and ourselves, to Him. (Romans 8:28)

This is, interestingly enough, something I’m experiencing right now. God is allowing the devil to attack me and this church right now, and several of us are feeling down or even depressed. I personally feel tired of the hassle, but I know that God has wonderful things still in store. As Paul said so memorably, “For our light and monetary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.” (2 Corinthians 4:17) I am tired of my own mistakes that hurt others and tear them down. I am tired of dealing with the immaturities and foibles of those around me. However, God is working on us all, training and disciplining us as we need it, and I need to be grateful. Gratitude will carry me through a lot! In my autobiography I’ve gotten to the time when I was going through military training. Just as that wasn’t always fun, but it still produced a good result in me, I need to thank God for what He’s putting me through right now, anticipating the glory that is to come.

Father, thank You for this reminder. Thank You that You still have work for me to do. Thank You that a Korean Christian TV station wants me to record three more messages for them next week. I ask for clear guidance as to which messages You want me to share. Thank You for the things You have for me to do today. Help me recognize Your schedule and follow it, so that Your will may be done as You desire, for Your glory. Thank You. Praise God!

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The Shema; January 9, 2026

Posted on January 10, 2026 by jgarrott

Deuteronomy 6:4-6 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts.

This is of course the Shema, the foundation of Jewish faith. Jesus quoted it as “the greatest commandment,” (Matthew 22:36-38) so it is essential for every Christian as well. However, if we treat it as just a saying, a proverb, if you will, it loses its meaning. In English we lose a lot of the impact, because we just say Lord, instead of the covenant name of God. These days we also tend not to understand the significance of “The Lord is one.” It is a statement of absolute monotheism. Moslems latch onto this part of it, but they get His name wrong; it’s not Allah, it’s Yahweh. This is why devout Moslems, when posing for a picture or after making a goal in soccer or something of the sort, will often raise one index finger, indicating a unitary God. They accuse Christians of being polytheists, because they can’t understand the Trinity. However, God being God, He can be one and three at the same time! In this passage, we tend to focus on verses 4 and 5, but verse 6 is also of great importance. The verses to follow, through verse 9, are practical helps for fulfilling verse 6. If God’s Word isn’t in your heart, it doesn’t do you a lot of good. As James said, anything short of living it out is just deceiving yourself. (James 1:22)

When Japan describes itself as “the land of 8 million gods,” this can be a tough pill to swallow. We knew one man who was a good friend and who came frequently to church services, but he wanted to add just Jesus to his “god shelf,” and he eventually stopped attending because of that. His grandfather had been a Shinto priest, and the idea that those 8 million gods were false wasn’t something he could stomach. That was tragic, particularly since he died of a heart attack before he turned 60. Such things notwithstanding, I am never to back down from the claim of Christ: “No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6) I was raised with the Shema as a given, so I’ve got to remember that the people around me generally have a completely different mindset. That in no way means I’m to give up trying to share the Gospel with them, but it does mean I’ve got to depend on God to give me the words that will break through the lies that bind them. I am never to stop inviting people to join the Israel of faith, to become children of Abraham by faith, children of God who will live with Him throughout eternity.

Father, thank You for this reminder. It is certainly a reminder of the size and difficulty of the task before me. Keep me from depending on myself, even for a moment. Help me rather listen to You and flow with Your Spirit at all times, so that I may be fully useful to You to accomplish Your will, for Your glory. Thank You. Praise God!

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God’s Heart for Us; January 8, 2026

Posted on January 9, 2026 by jgarrott

Deuteronomy 5:29 “Oh, that their hearts would be inclined to fear me and keep all my commands always, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!”

Various places in the Bible indicate God’s gracious desires for His people, but I don’t know of any place that is more clear than this. God desires good for us! English translations generally say, “go well with them,” but the Japanese uses a term that means “happy, blessed.” God desires good for us, but that is conditional on our maintaining a right relationship with Him, and that applies to society as a whole as well as individuals. Often, the trials we endure come from other people not fearing God, quite apart from the times we personally rebel against Him. The genetic damage that triggers cancer, for example, generally originates in the past centuries of human sin – though you won’t find a medical textbook that says that. Many books have been written about why bad things happen to good people, but I just think that’s how life is on this planet. After all, Jesus said clearly, “In this world you will have trouble.” (John 16:33) The way to minimize that and to come out on top when it does happen is to do what it says here: fear God and do what He says. We have a lot of trouble with the idea of “fearing” God, because we focus so much on His love and grace. That focus isn’t bad as such, but we need to remember that God is the perfect Father, and as the Bible says repeatedly, a good father disciplines his children. Hebrews 12 goes into some length on this subject. Today, with absent fathers and stupid ideas like “gentle parenting,” far too many people grow up physically without growing up emotionally, not having been properly disciplined by their fathers. That more than anything else, I think, is responsible for the decline in church attendance, ethics, and morality that is so evident in society. For good or evil, our image of God is greatly influenced by our fathers. We have a hard time understanding His love for us if we haven’t experienced a similar love from our fathers.

I had exemplary parents, I think, but they weren’t perfect. However, I never doubted that they loved me, and that God loved me. I knew that I disappointed them sometimes, and I disappointed God, too. (If you can actually say that, when He knows all of history at a glance.) I have understood that the way to blessed happiness was rightly relating to God, but that doesn’t mean I’ve always done things right. At least, I have no trouble at all recommending faith, a right relationship with our Creator, to everyone I encounter. I want everyone to know the Heavenly Father I know, to know that He is perfectly holy, but He loved us so much He sent His Son to die, taking the penalty for our sins so that we could come into fellowship with Him for eternity. That is the ultimate expression of what He expressed here to Moses. I feel incredibly blessed, and I want everyone to share that blessing.

Father, thank You for this reminder. Thank You for Your good desires and intentions toward us. Use me to communicate Your heart to as many people as will repent and believe, for their salvation and Your glory. Thank You. Hallelujah!

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Responsibility; January 7, 2026

Posted on January 8, 2026 by jgarrott

Deuteronomy 4:14 And the Lord directed me at that time to teach you the decrees and laws you are to follow in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.

This is significant in two directions. In the first place, God’s Law was for the whole people, for them to live by when they crossed over into the land God had promised them. However, the other side of it is that Moses, and subsequent leaders, were to teach the people what the law was. Disobedience was the responsibility of the people, but ignorance was the responsibility of the leaders. We do need to remember that literacy was a pretty rare thing back then, so all these laws had to be transmitted orally. That might seem to make the load on modern leaders much lighter, since they can tell people to read the Bible. In a sense that’s true, but things seldom penetrate very well that way. Leaders need to exemplify and demonstrate God’s laws for people really to grasp them. Everyone is individually accountable before God, but as James pointed out, “Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly.” (James 3:1) There’s plenty of responsibility to go around! There is a principle in civil law that “Ignorance of the law is no excuse.” Ignorance can lead to leniency, but we all run into the necessity of grace. As Paul famously expounded in Romans, we have all sinned, making God’s grace essential to us. The glorious news is that “There is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” (Romans 8:1) Leaders are responsible to teach both God’s laws and His grace.

I have been in pastoral ministry for about half a century, and I know from experience that this can get most awkward when the leader is the one in need of grace. Yesterday a brother pointed out to me how I had deeply hurt someone in the church, and in seeking to resolve that, I discovered that I had been getting someone else’s name wrong. I know the right things to do, but I don’t always do them! At this point I can only act in humility and trust that God will use all of this for blessing, despite what it looks like on the surface. (Romans 8:28) That God can use even our mistakes for good is another indication of His omnipotent mercy.

Father, thank You for this Word, and for Your truly amazing grace. Help me be an effective channel of that grace to all, and particularly the sheep in my care, for their blessing and Your glory. Thank You. Praise God!

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God Who is Near; January 6, 2026

Posted on January 7, 2026 by jgarrott

Deuteronomy 4:7 What other nation is so great as to have their gods near them the way the Lord our God is near us whenever we pray to him?

This is a major point. Various religions posit all sorts of gods, but certainly at the time of the exodus, no other religion claimed their god or gods were omnipresent. I don’t know what Islam says on this point today, but that is the only religion I know of that might claim this. And of course, under the New Covenant, God gives His Spirit to not only be with us but be in us. You can’t get any closer than that! Sad to say, Jewish history, and even Church history, show that people are all too slow to recognize and acknow-ledge that God is so close. I have heard it rightly said, “If God seems far away, guess who moved?” The saints of both the Old and New Testaments were those who recognized the nearness of God and responded to Him in gratitude and obedience. This particular truth is repeated time and time again throughout the Bible. Today, those with wisdom and perception start each day reaching out to God, and don’t limit their interaction with Him to special times and places, either. Paul quoted Epimenides of Crete to say, “In Him we live and move and have our being.” (Acts 17:28) Those who recognized a Creator, even without the revelation given to Abraham and fulfilled in Jesus, could understand that you could say we exist in God’s imagination. That is true intimacy, and failure to recognize and appreciate it is a loss beyond words.

I have commented many times that I grew up in a home where prayer was as natural as breathing. The idea that God was always listening was powerful indeed. I have certainly had times when I didn’t hear His responses very well, but that was never His fault! I find that few people I interact with really grasp that God desires such intimacy with us. I remember the time, right after our first real date, that Cathy and I spent every available moment talking with each other. The intimacy of soul to soul was intoxicating! In marriage counseling I tell couples that physical intimacy is a given in marriage, but without emotional, spiritual intimacy we get tired of it, and that’s a major factor in infidelity. My emotional and spiritual intimacy with my wife has only grown over the past 57 years, and I’m deeply grateful. (The anniversary of our first date is next month.) What’s even more wonderful is that my intimacy with my Creator also continues to grow, giving me huge anticipation of heaven, where all hinderances to that intimacy will be removed. As a pastor I try to communicate to everyone, believers and not-yet-believers alike, that God loves us more than we can imagine, and the better we open ourselves up to that love, the more glorious it is. To this point I have found very few who really believe it as much as I’ve experienced it, but I’m not to give up, but rather keep speaking the truth in love, demonstrating what intimacy with our Creator is like.

Father, thank You for this reminder. Help me be increasingly effective in sharing the Good News of Your love and grace, so that as many as possible may repent and believe, for their salvation and Your glory. Thank You. Hallelujah!

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Teaching; January 5, 2026

Posted on January 6, 2026 by jgarrott

Exodus 35:34 And he has given both him and Oholiab son of Ahisamak, of the tribe of Dan, the ability to teach others.

Many people have been impressed with the consummate skill of Bezalel and Oholiab, given all they accomplished, but they often overlook this detail. There was far too much to be done for these two men to do it all personally, so God gave them the ability to teach others to do the work as well. This is a vital part of discipleship training, which is our theme at this point. We are to be disciples of Jesus Christ, but we aren’t to do it alone. A person might have keen insight in reading the Bible and steadfast faithfulness in applying it in his daily life, but to fulfill the Great Commission, he needs to lead others to do the same. It has rightly been said that one of the best ways to learn something is to teach it, and in teaching others to follow Christ, we ourselves become much better disciples. America is traditionally all about “rugged individualism,” but that’s not how the Body of Christ operates. We are individuals, certainly, and we are individually accountable to God for all we say and do, but God’s plan is for us to interact with each other, building each other up in faith, love, and obedience. The thing is, each one of us has something they can teach others, and as I said, teaching is one of the most effective ways to learn. We need to be humble enough to learn from others, and at the same time recognize that God has placed things in us that He hasn’t yet placed in others, so that we will teach with assurance and love.

As someone with Teacher gifting, this is very close to my heart. I have been involved in classroom teaching for over half my life, and at this point I stand in a pulpit almost every Sunday. However, from a few years ago I have been learning more about coaching, which can be called a form of teaching but is far removed from lectures. Just yesterday a close friend cautioned me on this very point, saying that just giving people material on discipleship won’t do the job; I need to interact with them more personally. I was a bit defensive about it, because I have tried to be more one-on-one, but modern lifestyles have gotten in the way. However, that’s no excuse. I need to make the effort to create opportunities to interact with believers individually, checking on their growth and encouraging them to keep going. I think I am rightly careful of gender interactions. I have seen too many men, too many ministries, destroyed by such things. The “Billy Graham Rule” is very wise, avoiding both temptation and the appearance of evil. However, for men with jobs, I have to ask them to make time to meet with me, and the reception of such requests is spotty. However, I’m to keep trying. Every good thing God has given me is to be shared!

Father, thank You for this reminder. Help me follow through as You desire, neither proud nor defensive, so that the Body of Christ may be built up, for Your glory. Thank You. Hallelujah!

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Time; January 4, 2026

Posted on January 5, 2026 by jgarrott

Exodus 24:18 Then Moses entered the cloud as he went on up the mountain. And he stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Sometimes what God does seems instantaneous, and sometimes it seems to take time, or even a lot of time. The thing is, all of that is a matter of our perspective, because God is outside of time, and everything is NOW for Him. For an extreme example, we can look at creation. Genesis records it in terms of days, but current scientific estimates speak of millions and billions of years. Human life is limited when it comes to time, with anything over 100 years being considered exceptional, but for those who are in Christ, it is totally unlimited. (John 11:25-26) The timeframe mentioned here, of 40 days and nights, brings to mind Jesus’ time of temptation in the wilderness, which was said by Luke to be the same length. (Luke 4:2) We think of a 40-day fast as pretty extreme, but we don’t know how it seemed to Jesus. Just yesterday I read a study that showed that our perception of time affects how our bodies respond, to the point that we heal faster if we think more time has passed, regardless of objective measurement. There is a lot we don’t know! The point here is that we need to trust God with the schedule, whether it seems long or short to us. Our general perception has been likened to a toilet paper roll. When it starts out, a few sheets seem to make no difference, but by the end, even a few sheets make a big difference. For a small child, a week can be an appreciable fraction of their life experience, but for senior adults, even a year seems to flash by. We are not to be impatient, but know that God’s plans are perfect. Having just entered a new calendar year, all sorts of things seem new, but are negligibly different from a week ago. We sometimes get impatient, and sometimes think we have “all the time in the world,” but all of that is subjective. We need to look to and trust our eternal God, and leave Him in charge of the clock.

Not surprisingly, this is something I have a growing appreciation of as I grow older. I deal with people at all points on the time spectrum. I have a great-grand-daughter about to be born at any time now, and I have a friend who will be 101 next month. Time is relative! It’s now been many years since the Lord told me to rest, relax, and rejoice in Him. I’m still learning to do that! I am not to be slow in my obedience, but neither am I to complain at how long things seem to take. I remember having a pressing financial need while we were in seminary, and a check arrived in the mail the day after we prayed – showing that it had been mailed before we prayed! I am to keep my faith in the One who is outside of time, and know that His plans are perfect.

Father, thank You for this reminder. It’s interesting that I need it, after all these years! Thank You that I have gotten back to work on my autobiography. Help me be faithful in that, so that it will be completed on Your schedule, whatever that is. May I be instantly obedient to You, all the while resting in You, so that Your plans may be fulfilled on Your schedule for Your glory. Thank You. Praise God!

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Delegation; January 3, 2026

Posted on January 4, 2026 by jgarrott

Exodus 18:17-18 Moses’ father-in-law replied, “What you are doing is not good. You and these people who come to you will only wear yourselves out. The work is too heavy for you; you cannot handle it alone.”

We can learn several things from this incident. The first is that, as we saw yesterday, even someone like Moses needs to grow and improve, because they don’t get everything right; no one does. The second is that God will use people around us to correct us and give us His advice. We do need to be careful about this point, because not everyone speaks wisdom, but we definitely need to have the humility to listen, and submit advice to God for Him to tell us what is of Him. The third thing is a common issue with leaders of all sorts: no one can do it all. Moses’ father-in-law was right on in saying that over-centralization wasn’t good for anyone. Moses had to learn to delegate, and that’s a hard lesson for many. In Moses’ case, the numbers were so big that I feel sure he just chose the next tier of leaders below him, and let them in turn choose those below them. You couldn’t deal with over a million people any other way! A very current example of this would be Elon Musk. He is a genius about a number of things, but he couldn’t begin to run all his companies by himself. He has various trusted people, like Gwen Shotwell at SpaceX, to run things on a more granular level, and he sticks to the big issues. There is risk to doing things that way, but there is risk to every facet of life, and delegation brings far more potential for growth than any other way. And the forth thing is that God doesn’t always gift us as we might like for the tasks He has for us to do. Moses was not gifted as an administrator, so he had to listen to his father-in-law to get wisdom from that perspective. If God gifted us perfectly for every task, we would depend on our gifting, and not stay humbly dependent on God!

This is an area where I have made a lot of mistakes. I am very broadly gifted, and much of the time it seems easier to do things myself than to ask someone else to do them, or even help me do them. That has been a brake on this church from the beginning, but it is slowly improving. Advancing age is finally showing me I can’t do it all myself, and some of the people around me are probably thinking, “It’s about time!” I don’t want to ask anyone to do something I’m not willing to do, but that shouldn’t keep me from turning things over to them to do them. Pride is still very much an issue, because I tend to think they couldn’t do things as well as I could. That has been a major trap! I’ve got to keep it in focus that God is the only One who can do things perfectly, and He can use someone else as easily, or more easily, than He can use me to get things done. Delegation is still a major “study area” for me.

Father, thank You for this reminder. It fits in perfectly with what You have been saying to Cathy and me, that You are making various changes in what You have for me to be doing. I ask for wisdom in delegation, so that people will rise to the occasion and not feel dumped on when I turn things over to them. I don’t feel like I have a very big pool to draw from, so I ask You to show me whom You are raising up, for their blessing and the good of the Body of Christ. Thank You. Praise God!

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Training; January 2, 2026

Posted on January 3, 2026 by jgarrott

Exodus 4:12 “Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say.”

It is very instructive that Moses, the great leader of the people, had to be trained to do the job. No one in history has ever arrived on the scene perfect, doing everything right. The New Testament records that even Jesus grew – naturally enough, since He was born an infant like everyone else. We discount ourselves when we look at our current state (unless we are wallowing in conceit, which is even more dangerous). God takes us where we are and as we are, and works with us, transforming us into what we need to be to accomplish what He has for us to do. In this case, Moses had a speech handicap, likely either stuttering or stammering. It was no big deal as long as he was dealing with sheep, but God was telling him to go deal with a king! Here, He assures Moses that He  “will be with Moses’ mouth,” not just telling him what to say but enabling him to say it clearly. That should have been enough, but Moses wasn’t yet trained enough in trusting God. We see things only as they are in the moment, heavily colored by how they have been, but God sees things also as they are going to be, and He knows what it will take to get us there. We are to trust Him enough to do as He says, even when we feel we are incapable to doing it. That means accepting His training, His discipline, even when that isn’t fun. Hebrews 12 has long been a favorite chapter of mine, with its discussion of discipline. Japanese doesn’t have an exact equivalent of the word, discipline, and in Japanese translations it generally says training. That doesn’t reduce the impact of this statement: “No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.” (Hebrews 12:11) If we aren’t trained/disciplined, we won’t grow into what God created us to be, and that would be a tragedy.

I have tended to fall more on the conceit side of this issue, and that certainly hasn’t been good either. God has had to teach me that, though He can do anything at all through me, I can indeed do nothing right on my own, just as Jesus said. (John 15:5) As a pastor, my job is to train, and occasionally discipline, believers to do what God has for them to do. (Ephesians 4:11-13) I’m not to do it by commanding from above, but by coming alongside them, walking with them through the path God has for them. The various believers in this church come to mind as I write this, as well as the difficulties of my doing what I have just said, in each situation. That’s my training, because I am still incapable of doing anything right on my own. I’ve got to stay humbly dependent on God, accepting the people He brings alongside me, just as He provided Aaron for Moses, and know that the power and the glory all belong to Him.

Father, thank You for this strong reminder. Help me take it to heart and operate in it, allowing You to do in and through me everything that You desire, for the sake of the Body of Christ and for Your glory. Thank You. Hallelujah!

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New; January 1, 2026

Posted on January 2, 2026 by jgarrott

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!

Some years I really have to seek the Lord for what the Verse for the Year should be, but this time He just dropped this into my heart when I wasn’t even particularly concerned about it. We tend to be very conflicted about newness. In some areas we tend to want the latest thing, and in some areas we are comfortable with the familiar. That also tends to shift with the age of the observer, with younger people more in favor of the new, and older people hanging onto the familiar. The interesting thing is that God embodies that paradox. As He told Malachi, “I the Lord do not change.” (Malachi 3:6) However, as He told John, “I am making everything new!” (Revelation 21:5) To go to what Paul says in this verse, those who are in Christ are made new precisely because they acquire the unshakable, unchanging foundation of the God who created them in the first place. As many Bible writers noted, we are entirely transient in this earth, often compared to desert grasses that can sprout, bloom, and wither within a single day. It is only when we are anchored in the Rock of our salvation that we acquire permanence, and that is not for this life, but for eternity. It is natural to fear change, but when we are settled on what and who we are in Christ, we can welcome the new with joy, knowing that our God not only doesn’t change, He is totally loving and good, as well as totally holy and just. In Christ we are never chained to what has been, including what we have been, but we look forward to a new heaven and a new earth, as it says in Revelation 21:1.

I am definitely to an age where the old and familiar is more comfortable, so I have to choose to look forward to and accept the new. It has been widely said that the only constant is change. That is true only from some perspectives, and I need to stay anchored in my unchanging Lord. I need to remember what the Lord told me personally over 20 years ago. I was lying in bed, not consciously praying but just thinking, “There are so many things I wish were different.” As clearly as if He had been a person standing beside me, I heard the Lord say, “How do you think I feel?” It was quite a shock, and only the second time I had heard Him speak like that. However, it gave me a great peace that He isn’t pleased with a lot of what is going on, but He has a solution for everything, and I just need to trust Him. It is interesting that at this very moment, all sorts of things in the world that have been in violation of His character are being exposed, not just in the US but in nations around the world. That kind of new is welcome indeed! I am not to get tied in knots over how things are, or how it seems like they might be, but rather trust God to bring about His perfect plans, on His schedule for His glory.

Father, thank You for this reminder, and for this new year. Thank You that the watchnight service went well last night, though there were certainly some unexpected elements. You have indicated that You are making some changes, on a number of different levels. Help me not fear any of it, nor try to make things happen on my schedule, but rather flow with Your Spirit on Your schedule, so that I may be fully useful to You, for Your glory. Thank You. Praise God!

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