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I Choose Today to Walk in Humble Discernment

Molinda Hern February 17, 2026

I am a deep diver. When something captures my interest, I want to understand it fully. I want context, layers, background, motive, meaning. The more I learn, the more I want to learn. That is especially true when it comes to Scripture. The more I discover about God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, the more I realize how much more there is to know. And yet Scripture reminds us: “For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.” — 1 Corinthians 13:9–10 We know in part. Not in full. Not completely. Just… in part. Recently, I began thinking about how true that is of people as well. The other night my husband and I were talking about a public story involving someone who confessed to an affair during a live interview, which is how his wife found out. My immediate response was, “Your sin will find you out.” That phrase comes from Numbers 32:23, and Scripture certainly shows us that sin has a way of surfacing. David’s life is proof of that. We know the headlines: his affair with Bathsheba. The arranged death of Uriah. The attempt to conceal

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I Choose Today to Rest in Being Loved and Secure

Molinda Hern February 14, 2026

As I shared in this week’s episode of the I Choose Today podcast, there is a truth about our identity in Christ that many of us struggle to fully trust: we are securely loved by God. After learning that our identity is received, not achieved, that we can rest from striving, and that we are chosen and known, a quieter question often rises in the heart: Will He keep loving me? Many of us have known love that changed. Love that depended on behavior. Love that came close when we were doing well and pulled back when we weren’t. So we carry that pattern into our relationship with God, assuming His love might fluctuate too. But Scripture tells us something very different. It says, “God is love.” Love is not something He occasionally expresses. It is His nature. He cannot depart from who He is. God does not wake up one day feeling less loving, nor does He ration love according to our spiritual performance. If God stopped loving, He would stop being Himself, and that cannot happen. When we read 1 Corinthians 13, we often think about how we should love others. But if God is love, then this

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I Choose Today to Remember I Belong to Him

Molinda Hern February 10, 2026

There is a verse where Jesus says, “Apart from Me you can do nothing.” (John 15:5) At first glance, that can feel confusing. Because Scripture also tells us that when we belong to Christ, God lives in us and we live in Him (1 John 4:15). So how do those truths fit together? If He dwells in us, does that mean we never do anything apart from Him? Paul helps us understand this in his letter to the Corinthians. The believers there had started believing that what they did with their bodies didn’t matter much. But Paul corrected that thinking with a powerful reminder: “The one who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.” (1 Corinthians 6:17) Salvation isn’t just a belief, it’s a union. We belong to Christ. We are not spiritually independent people anymore. Paul goes even further: “Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you…? Therefore honor God with your bodies.” (1 Corinthians 6:19–20) Here’s the key. Jesus’ words, “apart from Me you can do nothing,” are not saying we are incapable of action, clearly we make choices every day. What He is saying is

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I Choose Today to Believe I Am Chosen and Known

Molinda Hern February 7, 2026

As I continue sharing through my I Choose Today podcast series on identity in Christ, one truth keeps surfacing that feels both tender and deeply needed: we don’t just belong to God — we are chosen and known by Him. After learning to receive identity and lay down striving, a quieter question often rises in our hearts: Do I really belong? Am I actually wanted? Not just forgiven. Not just included. But wanted. Psalm 139 reminds us that God’s knowledge of us is personal, not distant. “You have searched me, Lord, and You know me.” He knows the parts we celebrate, the parts we hide, and the parts still healing, and His knowing is not followed by rejection, but by nearness. We often live as though God is discovering who we are in real time, surprised by our failures and impressed by our good days. But Scripture shows something different. We were fully known before we ever tried to be impressive. Ephesians 1 tells us that God “chose us in Him before the foundation of the world… in love.” Before we prayed a prayer. Before we cleaned up our lives. Before we understood theology. Chosen. Not randomly. Not accidentally. Not

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I Choose Today to Trust the Great I AM

Molinda Hern February 3, 2026

There is a verse in the Bible that used to confuse me a little. It’s found in Exodus 3:14. God had just met Moses in the desert through a burning bush that was not consumed. He was sending Moses to Egypt to rescue the Israelites from oppression and slavery. But Moses wasn’t convinced he was the right person. So he asked God in verse 13, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is His name?’ Then what shall I tell them?” God’s answer is powerful: “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’” What does I AM mean? It means God is the One who always was, always is, and always will be. He is self-existing. Unchanging. Not dependent on anyone. Not limited. Not bound by time or circumstance. He simply IS. And because He is the eternal, self-sufficient God, it means something beautiful for us… He is everything His people need. He is healer. He is rescuer. He is provider. He is strength. He is sustainer. He

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