Today’s Word
The Forest
While travelling at high speed My mind encountered an exit A gateway unlike others A quiet road into the woods. The track was there between the ferns, Brambles for chokers Around its neck The ruts worn deep into its face, Scars of inner turmoil, of silent battle Among the watchers. I wanted to…
Gratefully Resentful
“. . . but now our appetite is gone. There is nothing at all to look at except this manna.” Numbers 11:6 NASB Nothing at all– Does gratitude have a dark side? Does your thankfulness for what you have elicit a concomitant desire for what you don’t have? When you express appreciation, is there a tiny hint of resentment…
Jouissance
And He said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.” Matthew 22:37 NASB You shall love– This is a commandment. It was stated first in the Torah (Deuteronomy 6:5). Yeshua only reiterates what every observant Jew already knew. The great commandment had been…
End of the Rainbow
that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; Philippians 3:10 NASB Know– Do you struggle with certainty? Do you want to know for sure what to believe and what not to believe? Are you plagued with the discovery that what you used to think was absolutely true doesn’t…
One of the “Also”
Now the apostles and the brethren who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. Acts 11:1 NASB Also– Put aside the last 2000 years of theological manipulation. Read this statement as a believing Messianic Jew in the first century. It should totally confuse you. It might even make you mad—or cry! How in the…
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