“Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart” (Ps 37:4). This is not a “trick” promise; the secret should be obvious. If you begin by assuming, in this desert world, that “all my springs are in You” (87:7), promise will change to possession. If we set our […]
My beloved first-born son and his precious wife have such a challenge with two special needs sons. As I grieved for them recently on a family holiday, the question gripped me, “Are you more compassionate than their heavenly Father?” Would I be like the one who snipped the restrictive opening of the chrysalis of an […]
We like to watch people make things out of things. But making things from nothing? That’s God’s department! Generally speaking, the richer a man is, the less manual labor he performs. He gets others to tend his garden, clean his house, even drive his car. But God, the richest Person in the universe—He owns everything—is […]
We like to watch people make things out of things. But making things from nothing? That’s God’s department! Generally speaking, the richer a man is, the less manual labor he performs. He gets others to tend his garden, clean his house, even drive his car. But God, the richest Person in the universe—He owns everything—is […]
CHRIST the BANNER: “There shall be a Root of Jesse, who shall stand as a banner (or rallying point) to the people; for the Gentiles shall seek Him, and His resting place shall be glorious” (Isa 11:10). When Paul Freed began to broadcast the gospel from Morocco into Spain in 1954, who would know that […]
“When leaders lead in Israel, when the people willingly offer themselves, bless the Lord!” (Jdg 5:2). After the sweeping heaven-given victory against the far superior forces of Sisera, Deborah and Barak sang a duet, beginning with this line. Without being political, let me say, this is what we need in the world today: leaders who […]
“What shall a man give in exchange for his soul?” (Mt 16:26). While this is almost always applied to the lost, it was spoken by the Lord to His own. To turn it around, since your soul has been rescued by God’s Champion, what will you give Him in gratitude for such heavenly heroism? Here’s […]
It must be so frustrating to try to build a righteous life out of shadows, as this young Jew discovered! That’s the issue for sincere Jewish people. The lambs offered couldn’t take away sin; the priests themselves were sinners. The Sanctuary was closed to them. But when Jesus came, He changed everything. The New Testament […]
You can see, in this dual role given to the Son, that the Father knows Christ is the solution to everything. We’ve considered the first dramatic statement about Christ in Psalm 110. “The Lord said to my Lord, ‘Sit at My right hand, till I make Your enemies Your footstool’” (Ps 110:1). This is quoted often in the […]