Today’s Word
The Circumcised Life
Now the man had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain, and she said, “I have gotten a manchild with the help of the Lord.” Genesis 4:1 NASB Gotten – Genesis 4:1 is a most surprising verse. First, it is the only place in Scripture that records words from…
Get Out of Jail Free
The Lord has disciplined me severely, but He has not given me over to death. Psalm 118:18 NASB Disciplined me severely – Salvation isn’t free. Oh, yes, we Christians know all about this. God’s son paid the price so we could be forgiven. Really? Is that it? God delivered His “Get Out of Jail Free”…
Shabbat
“The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time. It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in…
A Personal Dungeon
“Bring my soul out of prison, so that I may give thanks to Your name; the righteous will surround me, for You will deal bountifully with me.” Psalm 142:7 NASB Out of prison – What’s it like in there? What’s it like in the darkest recess of your “soul,” in the place where you keep…
A Corrected Beatitude
“Give heed to my cry, for I am brought very low; deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.” Psalm 142:6 NASB Persecutors – “Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness.” That familiar phrase found in the teaching of Yeshua in Matthew, chapter five, should have…
Today
I cried out to You, O Lord; I said, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.” Psalm 142:5 NASB The land of the living – We bandy about the biblical phrase, “land of the living,” as if it were quite familiar. Perhaps the words are, but I wonder if we…
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