“Can you search out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limits of the Almighty?” (Job 11:7). My maternal grandfather was marked by reverence for God. I often heard him refer to the Deity by the words, “Him with whom we have to do” (Heb 4:13, KJV). Although the phrase seemed awkward to my ear, […]
JESUS OUR INTIMATE: “At my first defense no one stood with me.…But the Lord stood with me” (2 Tim 4:16-17). Paul could only find one person to stand by him in his hour of need. Who? The Lord Himself! That’s the kind of friend everybody needs. Doesn’t it make sense, then, to respond to His […]
“With what shall I come before the Lord?…Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, ten thousand rivers of oil?…He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?” (Micah 6:6-8). It isn’t […]
How easy it is to become preoccupied with earthly things. This was the story of Demas. Paul says of his former co-worker, “For Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica” (2 Tim 4:10). It was not the present evil world, as we sometimes misquote it. In fact, he […]
Coming from the same mouth, curses poison blessings until you can’t tell them apart (Jas 3:10-12). Have you heard of an antiphrasis? It’s a rhetorical device where one says the opposite of what is actually meant in such a way that the true intention is obvious. People exclaim, “Oh, great!” when they mean anything but. […]
CHRIST the WORD: “That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life” (1 Jn 1:1). According to its website, the Library of Congress is the largest library in the world. It contains […]
“I cried out to the Lord because of my affliction, and He answered me” (Jonah 2:2). In chapter 1 of his book, the prophet confesses he missed the on-board prayer meeting. But something happened at the end of that chapter that certainly improved his prayer interest. “Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from […]
“Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven” (Mt 19:14). I was flying from Vancouver to California and sitting beside a woman who seemed impervious to all my efforts at witnessing. She spoke about her recent happy divorce, her pub crawls, her karma. […]
’Tis the set of the sails, And not the gales, That determines the way we go.” —Ella Wheeler Wilcox Job had passed the test. “In all this Job did not sin nor charge God with wrong” (Job 1:22). How could one consider an even more daunting trial of his faith than that, especially because all ten of […]
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