To some the mental image of God is a blur of disappointment. “Here,” they say resentfully, “is One whom I trusted, but He let me down.” The rest of their lives is shadowed by this letdown…God is a Disappointment. Some, of course, rather enjoy this never-failing well of grievance. The years by no means diminish […]
This lesson overlaps two chapters (Job 29:21–30:19). Was the change so abrupt that a division was inserted? At the end of Job 29, Job is still recalling the days when he was sought out for his wise counsel. “Men listened to me and waited, and kept silence for my counsel. After my words they did not […]
CHRIST the ONE who can MAKE OLD THINGS NEW: “Behold, I make all things new” (Rev 21:5). If only we could go back in time, we might make old things new. But Christ instead takes us up into the realm of the eternal. He gives us a new birth (Jn 3:3) which is life from […]
“Lord, give us this bread always” (Jn 6:34). Early Christians were accused of cannibalism. The Lord said, “He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him” (v 56). Immediately He was misunderstood, and continues to be! It reminds me of the Yanomami, an indigenous tribe living in the […]
Ray Comfort tells about a poster promoting atheism. It features pictures of Darwin, Jefferson and Lincoln, Ben Franklin, Einstein, Carl Sagan and Ernest Hemingway. “Atheism:” it says, “good enough for these idiots.” But is that true? Franklin wrote: “It is that particular wise and good God…that I propose for the object of my praise and […]
Everything can change in the blink of an eye. Except this: “I am the Lord, I do not change” (Mal 3:6). As Job recollects his life before tragedy struck, he can remember the words that ran through his mind when he finally had made it to the top. “Then I said, ‘I shall die in my nest, and […]
CHRIST the ETERNAL LIFE: “The Life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you that Eternal Life which was with the Father and was manifested to us” (1 Jn 1:2). We have no life independent of Christ—He is our life (Col 3:4)! He is the WORD of Life (Jn 1:1) […]
“Redeem me from the oppression of man, that I may keep Your precepts” (Ps 119:134). Have you ever thought of this? What does it mean to be redeemed from the oppression of man? It’s not easy obeying the Lord’s directives. And one reason, says David, is that every day we seem to “run the gauntlet.” […]
Hypocrisy is the great impediment in evangelism. Our Lord prayed that His people might be marked by reality. “Sanctify them through Thy truth: Thy word is truth” (Jn 17:17). A.W. Tozer writes: Truth, to be understood, must be lived. Bible doctrine is wholly ineffective until it has been digested and assimilated by the total life. […]