I was a daydreamer. Watching a construction crew outside the school window, I could build a castle in the sky in the time it took them to lay a few bricks. Thus, the most common words of affirmation from my teacher were, “Pay attention!” I WAS paying attention—just about different things. As I matured, I […]
Commentators differ on the dollar value of the treasure to be transported, but all agree it was a lot! The four-month journey that lay before Ezra and his companions would not be easy. Marauders hid in the hills, waiting to rob the unsuspecting. And they were transporting a king’s ransom, “the silver, the gold, and the […]
CHRIST the DAYSPRING: “The Dayspring from on high has visited us; to give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace” (Lk 1:78-79). Zacharias, filled with the Spirit, prophesied these beautiful words concerning the coming Redeemer. The world was a very dark […]
“Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine” (Isa 43:1). Is this the God who first heard these words from His creature just after sin came into Eden: “I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself” (Gen 3:10)? When Harry Ironside was a […]
I think of my fellow-sinners; my companions in crime and guilt. I would fain make some suitable amends to them. And what can be more appropriate in that view than the resolution, with reference to them, and all my fellow men, “I will teach transgressors Thy ways, and sinners shall be converted to Thee” (Ps […]
The Jewish Levites were servants to the priests; the Gentile Nethinim were servants to the servants! According to University Hospitals’ website “The Science of Health,” the top five most stressful life events are the death of a loved one, divorce, a major illness or injury, job loss, and—moving! In the days of Ezra, it was […]
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CHRIST the LOVE WARRIOR: “Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us” (Rom 8:37). Amy Carmichael (1867–1951), served the Lord without furlough in India for 55 years. She served at Dohnavur in Tamil Nadu, which became a sanctuary for over one thousand children, many rescued from child prostitution. […]
“What man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?” (Mt 7:9). Do you ask the Lord for little things—like daily bread? Jesus said we should, didn’t He? Is there anything too little to ask Him? Or to put it the other way around, is anything at […]
In the fourth century, the “golden-mouthed” Chrysostom of Antioch wrote: “I do not think of Christ as God alone, or Man alone, but both together. For I know He was hungry, and I know that with five loaves He fed five thousand. I know He was thirsty, and I know that He turned the water […]