Today’s Word

Going Home

I am a stranger in the earth;
Do not hide Your commandments from me.  Psalm 119:19  NASB Stranger – What is required for a stranger to become a welcomed member of the community?  You might find yourself in that situation if you travel outside your native land.  You want to establish connection, create new bonds, become…
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The Cry from the Cross

All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations shall worship before you.  Psalm 22:27  ESV Worship – “The philosophy of Jewish living is essentially a philosophy of worship.  For what is observance, if not a form of worshipping God?”[1] Once you grasp the…
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Altar Call

Let my prayer be counted as incense before you, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!  Psalm 141:2  ESV Sacrifice – Come and worship the King!  Surrender your vanities, burn your insolence, abandon your bias.[1]  But do not think that you will go away unscathed.  Do not imagine His holiness will…
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Rules of the Game

Accept my freewill offerings of praise, O LORD, and teach me your rules.  Psalm 119:108  ESV Rules – Does the God of grace have rules?  You bet!  If you thought grace meant “no rules,” then you are not only Roman/Greek in your worldview, you have also never read Scripture in its own culture.  Just as…
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Necessary Retreat?

Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.  Psalm 119:115  ESV Keep – The company you keep has a direct effect on your ability to delight the Lord.  Old places and old faces, as every Twelve-Stepper knows, will certainly drag you back down the addictive path.  Anyone who thinks…
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Hidden Hope

You are my hiding place and my shield; I wait for Your word.  Psalm 119:114  NASB Wait for – Once more David opens the line with a samech.  Here the first word of the verse is sitri’ – “hiding place, covering, protection.”  The verb in translation (“are”) is implied, not expressed.  The idea that God…
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