The Two-Directions Word

You have put me in the lowest pit, in dark places, in the depths.  Psalm 88:6  NASB Put – The Hebrew verb šît comes with some very odd translation history.  Occurring eighty-five times in the Bible, it covers the range from commitment (“to set the heart on”) to enemy opposition (“set against me”).  It is also used for…

Posture Perfect

How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers!  Psalm 1:1  NASB Walk/stand/sit – Undoubtedly Watchman Nee’s influential Christian book Sit, Walk, Stand found its genesis in a verse like this.  Perhaps you, like me, read it when…

The Look

I will set no worthless thing before my eyes;
I hate the work of those who fall away;
It shall not fasten its grip on me.  Psalm 101:3  NASB Worthless – Does David’s declaration match your vision?  David declares that no beliya’al will come before him.  If we’re going to follow David’s devotion, we must know what…