Missing the Introduction

To the choirmaster.  According to Jeduthun.  A psalm of David.  Psalm 62:1 (Hebrew Text) Jeduthun – Most translations of the psalms put the “introduction” of the text in tiny letters or completely ignore these “preliminary” words.  This is not the case in the Hebrew text.  The introduction is an essential part of knowing what the…

Your Wrath Comforts Me

I am the man who has seen affliction because of the rod of His wrath.  He has driven me and made me walk in darkness and not in light.  Lamentations 3:1-2  NASB I am the man – Jeremiah was a righteous man.  He was obedient to YHWH’s will.  He accepted the consequences of his divine…

Left Ahead

Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection!  Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priest of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.  Revelation 20:6  ESV Reign – In Mesillat Yesharim, Moses Luzzatto suggests that we enter the…

A Good Excuse

 For I say that Christ has become a servant to the circumcision on behalf of the truth of God to confirm the promises given to the fathers, and for the Gentiles to glorify God for His mercy; as it is written,  Romans 15:8-9 NASB As it is written – It’s just before the beginning of…

Assay Exam

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.  Matthew 5:6  ESV Hunger and thirst – Are we starving for God?  It’s not an easy question to answer.  We are inclined to say “Yes” as soon as we hear the question but maybe we need a deeper look into ourselves…

Once Too Often

July 29  Then she conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. And the Lord said to him, “Name her Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer have compassion on the house of Israel, that I would ever forgive them.  Hosea 1:6  NASB Compassion – There is no doubt that Israel deserved God’s anger.  Israel sinned…

Beating the Dead Horse

 For out of Zion shall go the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn…

Picturing the End

 It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it, and many peoples shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up…