Today’s Word
Inception
“Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I shall return there. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.” Job 1:21 NASB Naked I shall return there – Do we truly understand Job’s response to calamity? Are we prepared to have our lives stripped to the bone simply because God…
Depleted Uranium
How long, O Lord, will I call for help, and You will not hear? I cry out to You, “Violence!” yet You do not save. Why do You make me see iniquity, and cause me to look on wickedness? Habakkuk 1:2-3a NASB You make me see – James Bond. Yup, that’s right. James Bond introduced the general public to depleted…
A Call to Arms
The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped; Psalm 28:7 NASB Helped – So you’re up against it. That old feeling of helplessness, abandonment, anxiety, fear, worthlessness is back again. You thought you’d overcome it, but then something happened. Something you didn’t expect, weren’t prepared for. And suddenly you’re that little…
Clarity
For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. Romans 7:15 NASB I do not understand – Was Paul confused? When he writes, “I do not understand,” does he really mean “What I’m doing makes no sense to me,” or…
Hide and Go Hide (2)
I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints Ephesians 1:18 NASB May be enlightened – Heschel’s remarks (yesterday) establish the dangerous impossible seriousness of prayer. We know that God is in hiding. We…
Hide and Go Hide (1)
I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints Ephesians 1:18 NASB May be enlightened – Prayer. No, that’s not right. We know what the noun is. We can define it. But the problem…
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