A Way to Read Scriptures
Many times, I read slowly until the Holy Spirit stops me by having a word or a phrase jump off the page. Then I take that word as my meditation for the day.
Many times, I read slowly until the Holy Spirit stops me by having a word or a phrase jump off the page. Then I take that word as my meditation for the day.
But Cain must have allowed his great anger to increase and overtake him as he stepped over the lamb provided for him and stormed away to find and kill Abel.
In the book of Judges we read that the Midianites, who were enemies of Israel, were raiding Israel. They were stealing, and ruining their houses and land. The people lived in fear, never knowing when the Midianites would strike. Gideon was so afraid of the Midianites that he hung out in a winepress to do…
On this day we commemorate how Jesus entered Jerusalem humbly riding on the colt of a donkey. The people didn’t understand. They thought he was entering as the one who would set Himself up as King and drive out the tyranny of the Roman rulers.
The creation is the artistic work of God, intricate in details, with all parts working together.
When these books are placed alongside the Bible, the contrast is indeed very obvious!
Moses had to surrender his past and his life as it was. Through his encounter with the Holy God on Holy Ground, he was changed from the inside out.
Here are reasons for believers to ponder God’s goodness in providing such a wonderful salvation. God gives us richly “all things to enjoy” (I Timothy 6:17).
Weather is terribly unpredictable, like rest of life. It reminds me of a fact I’ve heard about the odds of all the predictions of the Old Testament coming true. It’s a ratio of some-stupidly-large-number-with-lots-of-commas-and-zeros to one.
Daniel 1:8 says that Daniel “purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself.” He made a decision to follow God’s laws, no matter what. He loved God.