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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 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 Stop Striving for What Christ Already Finished

Molinda Hern January 31, 2026

There was a season in my walk with God when, if you asked me, I would have said, “I trust God. I believe in grace.” And I meant it. But underneath that belief, I was still quietly working. Working to be enough. Working to prove I was serious. Working to earn the feeling of being close to God. It didn’t look like rebellion. It looked like devotion. I was serving. I was learning. I was showing up. But if I’m honest, underneath all of it was fear. Fear that if I slowed down, I would disappoint God. Fear that if I didn’t keep proving myself, I would drift. Fear that closeness with God depended on my consistency. Beneath all of that was one unspoken question: Have I done enough? One day, in a quiet moment, the Holy Spirit gently brought a question to my heart: “Why are you trying to earn what My Son already paid for?” That question stopped me. Because I realized I wasn’t serving from rest. I was serving to try to reach rest. This week on the podcast, I talked about this very thing — the hidden striving many of us carry in our spiritual lives

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I Choose Today to Bring My Hidden Hurts into the Light

Molinda Hern January 27, 2026

When I clean, I’ve been known to be a shover. I shove things in drawers. Closets. Cabinets. Anywhere I can hide the mess so my space looks tidy. On the surface, everything appears in order… but inside those drawers, there’s still chaos waiting to be dealt with. If I’m honest, I’ve done the same thing in my heart. Shoving our mess down in life isn’t the way to go either. Because sooner or later, what we’ve buried demands attention. Unaddressed hurts, unresolved mistakes, and buried disappointments don’t just disappear. They seep into our attitudes, our reactions, and our relationships — often in ways we don’t even realize. I’ve seen this play out in my own life. One time my husband gave me simple feedback, and my response was completely over the top. My reaction didn’t match the moment at all. Later, I had to ask myself, Why did I respond like that? What did I shove into the closet of my heart that just came spilling out sideways? That moment showed me something important — I couldn’t clean this mess on my own. I needed God to reveal what was hiding beneath the surface. Like David in Psalm 139, I

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