Today’s Word
Ending with a Whimper
You have placed our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence. For all our days have declined in Your fury; we have finished our years like a sigh. Psalm 90:8-9 NASB Secret sins – OK, so how do you want to end? It’s coming, you know. Every day a bit…
What You Don’t Know
“Stolen water is sweet; and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”Proverbs 9:17 NASB In secret – How foolish are we? Proverbs might help us decide the answer to this question. The woman of folly (‘eshet kesilut – “woman of insolence, stupidity”) is the public enticement to those who are attempting to follow the straight path….
Servant Song
The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the LORD GOD concerning Edom—We have heard a report from the LORD, and an envoy has been sent among the nations saying, “Arise and let us go against her in battle”— Obadiah 1:1 Obadiah – We should be able to handle twenty-one verses, don’t you think? One of the…
Mysterious Left-overs
“If thieves came to you,
If robbers by night—
O how you will be ruined!—
Would they not steal only until they had enough?
If grape gatherers came to you,
Would they not leave some gleanings?” Obadiah 1:5 NASB Gleanings – Are you left-overs? I know we like to think of ourselves as the elect, the chosen, the special ones…
Fruit Inspector
“So I will choose their punishments
And will bring on them what they dread.
Because I called, but no one answered;
I spoke, but they did not listen.
And they did evil in My sight
And chose that in which I did not delight.” Isaiah 66:4 NASB Punishments – Jeremiah tells us that God rewards according…
Contingent Destiny
I, the Lord, search the heart,
I test the mind,
Even to give to each man according to his ways,
according to the results of his deeds. Jeremiah 17:10 NASB Results – Frankly, this verse scares me. There are a few others that give me equal fright, but this one might be at the top of that list. …
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