“My heart pants, my strength fails me; As for the light of my eyes, it also has gone from me.” (Psalm 38:10) We find in the reading of this Psalm David lamenting the harshness of life … whether it be in the recognition of his sins and sorrow over them … or the opposition of […]
“One generation shall praise Your works to another, And shall declare Your mighty acts.” (Psalm 78:4) By the time you read these words … I will have become a great-grandfather. Our oldest granddaughter Anna gave birth to a precious baby boy. And to quote my own dear mother upon her passage to that blissful time […]
“Then Zedekiah the king sent and took him out. The king asked him secretly in his house, and said, ‘Is there any word from the Lord? And Jeremiah said there is …” (Jeremiah 37:17) It is no secret. The world we are living in is unstable in so many ways. We would hope and pray […]
“But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” (Matthew 6:33) Could it be that we underestimate just how much our Lord knows about each one of us? Think about this for just a moment. Is He not our Creator … of course He is […]
“… We might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us. This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast …” (Hebrews 6:18, 19) The imagery painted in the Scriptures is graphic and should be very reassuring. Life is not for […]
“Who is the man who fears the Lord? Him will he instruct in the way that he should choose.” (Psalm 25:12, ESV) A hundred years ago, a wise man once said … “I shall be telling this with a sigh, Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the […]
“So teach us to number our days, That we may gain a heart of wisdom … Oh satisfy us early with Your mercy, That we may rejoice and be glad all our days!” (Psalm 90:12, 14) Life can be interesting at times, can it not? It might be hearing a voice from the past … […]
“But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our Potter; we are all the work of Your hand.” (Isaiah 64:8) The Bible frequently uses the imagery of God as a potter, and we as the clay to describe His relationship with us. And our text explains what it […]
“As His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption […]
“Then Jesus said to the twelve, ‘Do you also want to go away?’ But Simon Peter answered Him, ‘Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.’” (John 6:67-68 NKJV) What each of us must learn and apply is to lean on God! We are no stronger than that upon which […]
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