Our Lord understands what it feels like to be excluded, rejected, unwanted. He warned, “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated Me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own.…but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you” (Jn 15:18-19, […]
The road of life can be tough, but don’t make it harder by exiting at Transgressor Way (Prov 13:15). Psalm 78 is the first and longest of the Historical Psalms (with Ps 105–107, 114, and 135–136). In these psalms, the author’s intention is to glorify God for His wonderful ways and to warn future generations […]
CHRIST the WORD: “That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life” (1 Jn 1:1). According to its website, the Library of Congress is the largest library in the world. It contains […]
“I cried out to the Lord because of my affliction, and He answered me” (Jonah 2:2). In chapter 1 of his book, the prophet confesses he missed the on-board prayer meeting. But something happened at the end of that chapter that certainly improved his prayer interest. “Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from […]
“Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven” (Mt 19:14). I was flying from Vancouver to California and sitting beside a woman who seemed impervious to all my efforts at witnessing. She spoke about her recent happy divorce, her pub crawls, her karma. […]
Life’s only real tragedies are the ones from which we learn nothing. Stumbling stones can be stepping stones. Asaph is taking us to school. He will show us that even bad experiences can be good lessons, often the best of all. He writes that God “established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel” (Ps […]
CHRIST the PROVIDER of “ALL THINGS”: “All things are yours…And you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s” (1 Cor 3:21-23), for “He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?” (Rom 8:32). In fact, “His divine power […]
“The Lord is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him in truth” (Ps 145:18). James M. Gray, an editor of the first Scofield Bible, was a close associate of D.L. Moody. Raised in a nominally Christian home, he did not know the Lord. One evening, while reading a book […]
Imputation means to reckon, or to put to one’s account. “And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, ‘Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.’ And he was called the friend of God” (Jas 2:23). A similar verse in Galatians 3:6 renders the word as “accounted to him.” We have the idea […]