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  ✨ Devotional: The Day I Tried to Outshine God’s Glory (and Lost) Some days you walk into church feeling like a whole anointed masterpiece… and then Sister So ‑ and ‑ So strolls in with her perfect hair, perfect Bible tabs, and a glow so bright you’re convinced she charges in the sun like a solar lantern. You try to act holy, but inside you’re thinking: “Lord, why does she look like the Proverbs 31 woman and I look like the Psalm 51 woman.” But here’s the truth: God never asked you to compete with anyone else’s shine. He just asked you to burn with the flame He gave you. Sometimes that flame is a steady candle. Sometimes it’s a bonfire. And sometimes it’s a spark that pops unexpectedly like a firecracker and hits someone in the forehead. But it’s yours — and it’s sacred.   📖 Scripture Zechariah 2:5 (NIV) “And I myself will be a wall of fire around it,” declares the Lord, “and I will be its glory within.” God said, “I’ll be your protection AND your glow....

A devotional inspired by a childhood drawing and God’s gentle reply When I was a preteen, I drew an image during church that I never forgot. It was a picture of myself underground — eyes closed, a tear falling — while a single flower bloomed above me in the sunlight. I didn’t have the words for it then, but I knew what it meant: I felt buried, unseen, and unsure if anything beautiful could ever grow from my life. That image came back to me recently as I’ve wrestled with the heaviness of chronic depression — the kind that makes you feel like a black hole nothing can fill. And yet, even in that darkness, the memory of that drawing whispered something familiar: Maybe beauty can still grow from me. As I prayed, I imagined what God might say back to that little girl… and to the woman I am now. I Saw You in the Dark (As if God is speaking) Child of Mine, I saw you long before the world did. I saw the girl who felt buried, drawing herself beneath the ground because she didn’t know how deeply ...