We need to be careful of our wishes—we might just get them! Did Job really want to confront God? Job wanted God to be near so he could plead his cause. “I would present my case before Him, and fill my mouth with arguments.…Would He contend with me in His great power? No! But He would take note […]
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CHRIST the CONNECTOR: “For we also are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him by the power of God…Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?” (2 Cor 13:4-5). Through Christ, we have been brought into at least seven wonderful relationships with the Lord our God. Thankfully they cannot be […]
“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 […]
“Nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself.” —Meister Eckhart (c 1260–1328) It’s hard to catch anything being said when it comes at us rat-a-tat-tat. But Job picks up one thought from Eliphaz’s last speech. His friend has inferred that God’s abode in the third […]
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 […]
“Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me by Your generous Spirit” (Ps 51:12). If Eliphaz had only been right in his premise—“Is not your wickedness great, and your iniquity without end?” (Job 22:5)—the words of Job 22 would have been an excellent step-by-step recovery program for a fallen saint. He was wrong, of […]
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