“Those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same” (Job 4:8). But the striking thing is this: we are not only the sowers; we are also the field of harvest! Carlyle wrote: “One cannot do a mean thing or think a base thought without becoming like the thing he thinks or does.… A miser […]
Who released “those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage” (Heb 2:15)? Job uses words with such rich meaning—especially when he’s talking about life having no meaning! In a way, he reminds me of the atheist who uses his intelligence to prove there’s no intelligence behind the universe. Or the philosopher who […]
Read More… from August 13, 2025 — As Dark As Darkness Itself
“Your fruit is found in Me” (Hos 14:8). At the end of Hosea’s prophecy, this ray of hope shines on beleaguered Israel. From the opening command in Genesis, “Be fruitful,” to the scene in the Jerusalem Above, where a tree grows “which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month” (Rev 22:2), God […]
This section goes more deeply into our souls and God’s mind. But it’s just not deep enough! Daily life can be so superficial. How much time is expended on pampering, clothing, and feeding the body! We move from house to gym to office to restaurant—then repeat. In between, it’s social media and Facebook friends (the […]
Read More… from August 12, 2025 — Look What’s Hidden In God’s Heart
“He who is least among you all will be great” (Lk 9:48). Samuel Rogers wrote: “That very law which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.” Paul understood this. The smallest movement of a believer ripples out into […]
Wrestling with that Man may leave us limping, but it’s also how we become princes with God. Job isn’t finished. In Job 9, he talks about God; in chapter 10, he talks to God. He firstdeclares he is justified in complaining (v 1). “I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me; show mewhy You […]
“Revive me according to Your lovingkindness, so that I may keep the testimony of Your mouth” (Ps 119:88). We have already looked at this prayer for personal revival in verses 25, 37, and 40 of this amazing psalm. And we’ll see it again in verses 107, 149, 154, 156, and 159. NINE times David requests […]
“Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.… For each one shall bear his own burden” (Gal 6:2, 5). Alexander Smellie, chronicler of the Scottish Covenanters, tells of one of Christ’s noblemen imprisoned by Claverhouse on lonely Bass Rock. The motto on his coat of arms read, Sub pondere cresco: “I grow […]
“He cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees” (1 Ki 18:42 KJV). Elijah’s first prayer is not the kind of request we want to make. He called on God to stop blessing His people until they returned to Him. It took three-and-a-half years until they finally fell to their […]