THANK YOU!! What else can I write with one hand to tell you how much it meant to hear from so many of you. Please forgive the mass reply but it hurts to write so one message will have to do for now. I am so grateful. I’ll keep you posted on progress. I see…
And He gave up His strength to captivity and His glory into the hand of the enemy. He also turned His people over to the sword, And was filled with wrath at His inheritance. Psalm 78:61-62 NASB The hand of the enemy – Okay, let’s agree that Asaph is a poet, not an historian. Let’s agree that he…
When God heard them, He [ac]was filled with wrath and He utterly rejected Israel; Psalm 78:59 NASB Utterly rejected – If God “utterly rejected” Israel because of their disobedience in the wilderness, then why couldn’t He do it again when they rejected the Messiah? Seems logical, doesn’t it? Even if the Jews claim an “eternal covenant” with God, doesn’t…
This is Sunday. If I remember correctly. Five days ago, a truck and my bicycle had a brief encounter. Within two seconds I had a broken leg and a broken hand, a banged-up shoulder, and some other lacerations. I don’t remember any of it. I remember riding on the bicycle, seeing the curb, and trying…
For they provoked Him with their high places and moved Him to jealousy with their carved images. Psalm 78:58 NASB Provoked/ jealousy – Yesterday we realized that the children of Israel turned back (sûg) toward Egypt in their hearts because they could not emotionally trust God. Their feet kept going forward, around and around in the wilderness waiting, waiting,…
But turned back and acted treacherously like their fathers; they turned aside like a treacherous bow. Psalm 78:57 NASB Turned back – Don’t be mistaken. This Hebrew word is not שׁוּב (šûb) (re)turn. šûb is “turning back” to God. Jeremiah uses this Hebrew verb in seventeen different ways, all connected to returning. But Asaph doesn’t employ šûb. …
They did not remember His [w]power, the day when He redeemed them from the enemy, Psalm 78:42 NASB Not remember – In the next ten verses Asaph lists all the mighty works that God did to redeem His people from Egypt. You might notice that his list isn’t quite the same as the sequence of events in Exodus. For…
How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert! Again and again they [v]temptedGod, and pained the Holy One of Israel. Psalm 78:40-41 NASB Tempted – We’re all familiar with James’ declaration: “No one is to say when he is tempted, ‘I am being tempted by God’; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He…
It only took 10 seconds but in that time my life changed dramatically. On my bicycle, a truck forced me off the road and I crashed. These will be with me for 40 days. Rosanne and I are re-evaluating the Summer schedule. According to witnesses, I came within 2 inches of going under the truck….
So He remembered that they were only flesh, a wind that passes and does not return. Psalm 78:39 NASB Only flesh – Human life is a fairy tale. Oh, I don’t mean it isn’t real. I mean it’s a “once upon a time” story. Every human life is a wind that passes and does not return. It’s…
