Fashion-ista

Moreover, the Lord said, “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with heads held high and seductive eyes, and go along with mincing steps and jingle the anklets on their feet, the Lord will afflict the scalp of the daughters of Zion with scabs, and the Lord will make their foreheads bare.”  Isaiah 3:16-17 NASB Make their foreheads…

Why Does God Love Me?

For He Himself knows our frame; He is mindful that we are but dust. Psalm 103:14 NASB Our frame – God may be the only person in the universe who loves dust. Of course, He shaped that dust into something that resembles Him, but David reminds us that He hasn’t forgotten what we are made…

The Human God

Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.  Genesis 2:7  NASB Formed – The three verbs of creation each have unique features.  Bara’ is exclusively a verb of divine action, a verb used of creative acts only…

Slowly and Carefully

Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.  Genesis 2:7  NASB Formed – You don’t know what you are supposed to do until you know who you are made to be.  That’s why the opening passages of…

Back to bara

o God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds  . . .  Genesis 1:21 ESV Created – There are demarcations in the Hebrew text that provide important insights about our relationship to God and to the rest of His cosmos.  Unfortunately, some…

Pattern Recognition

and do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. Romans 12:2 Conformed – Let’s go to visit the blacksmith. Of course, today you might have to travel a long…