“And the Lord said unto him, What is that in your hand? And he said, A rod.” (Exodus 4:2) Moses carried a rod, a stick, a staff, a piece of wood. It was really all he had to his name at this point in his life. A rod and, oh yes, a...
“As the hart pants after the water brooks, so pants my soul after You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?” (Psalm 42:1-2). Do you talk to yourself? If you do, several of the Psalms affirm that this...
The middle part of our Bibles is called the poetic section or the wisdom literature. These books are for our hearts and souls. The things that we learn in reading them are to help us along our journey and to address the feelings we have as we walk with God....
The Word of God gets scattered like seed, Jesus said in Mark 4. The sower goes forth to sow. Seed requires certain conditions in order to flourish and produce fruit. Not everyone realizes the life that is contained in a seed. Those given to planting and harvesting understand the power...
Two mites. It was all that she had and she gave it away. She tossed those small coins into the treasury at the Temple in Jerusalem, according to Luke 21. There, amid the large donations dropped in by the wealthier ones in the community, these mites would seemingly get lost....
Lost things. A sheep. A coin. A son. These things are what Luke 15 is about. Jesus cares for what’s lost. It really is His total focus. He said as much in Luke 19:10: “The Son of Man came to seek and to save that which is lost.” Lost things...
Elijah “came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die.” Also, Job spoke, “Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.” And “Jacob awaked out of his sleep,...
Proverbs 7 is a chapter about an unwise guy who wanders into trouble. It’s a scene that takes place in the twilight. A foolish young man has allowed himself to be led into temptation. And the results are not good. He falls into the trap set for him. It is...
Joshua fit the battle of Jericho. And the walls came a tumbling down. That song composed long ago by Southern slaves became a rallying cry for freedom. The walls of bondage would fall – that’s what the singers of it believed. In another time and place, Jericho walls did fall...
Because of His superabounding Grace toward us, we can firmly fasten our minds, fix our hearts, focus our eye on whatsoever things are honest, lovely, pure, true, of good report and that have virtue (Phil.4:8). This will spare us the pain of living with a heart divided from the Father's...
