The distress of my heart has grown great. From my straits bring me out. See my affliction and suffering and forgive all my offenses. Psalm 25:17-18 Robert Alter Distress – Life handed you baggage. Some of it becomes yours before you were born, but when you arrived, no one told you that you inherited your…
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and pleading with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. Philippians 4:6 NASB Anxious – We have a common reply: “You’ve got nothing to worry about.” When you hear that, how does it really make you feel? I don’t know about you, but…
Make sure that your character is free from the love of money, being content with what you have; for He Himself has said, “I will never desert you, nor will I ever abandon you,” Hebrews 13:5 NASB Desert/ Abandon – The author of the letter to the Hebrews does what so many ancient writers of sacred texts tended to…
who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. 2 Corinthians 1:4 NIV So that – It’s just a tiny word, eis, a little conjunctive. Note Oepke’s comment: “Originally spatial, this word takes on theological significance in the NT.”[1] This is…
I certainly believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for the Lord. Psalm 27:13-14 NASB Living – Not tomorrow! No, the psalmist is not hoping that somehow he will see something that points to God’s goodness in the…
I certainly believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for the Lord. Psalm 27:13-14 NASB Living – We looked at Psalm 27:13 before, some time ago. CLICK here. But it’s worth reconsidering because the claim seems so…
But Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and besides, I will not let Israel go.” Exodus 5:2 NASB Lord – It’s too bad that English translations replace the consonants YHVH with “LORD” especially in this verse. Why? Because Pharoah isn’t making a statement about…
that they may all be one; just as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me. John 17:21 NASB May believe – “The purpose of God is not to answer our prayers, but by our prayers we come to discern the mind…
