“to love the LORD your God and walk in all His ways and keep His commandments and hold fast to Him and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.” Joshua 22:5 Keep – Shamar has a wide umbrella of meanings. They stem from the idea of watching. Why do we need…
“to love the LORD your God and walk in all His ways and keep His commandments and hold fast to Him and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.” Joshua 22:5 Walk – How do you walk the pathway of life? If you’re like most of us, you soon discover that…
“to love the LORD your God and walk in all His ways and keep His commandments and hold fast to Him and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.” Joshua 22:5 Love – Joshua uttered those famous words, “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” It’s a…
And if you will not listen to it, my soul will sob in secret for such pride Jeremiah 13:17 Sob – Rachel weeping for her children. Joseph grieving over his brothers’ sin. The baby Moses crying in the basket. One hundred and thirty times the Hebrew word bakah is used to describe vocal outburst because…
Have you found honey? Eat only what you need, that you not have it in excess and vomit it. Proverbs 25:16 Only – What a strange proverb! How does a comment about finding honey have anything to do with seeing the world from God’s point of view? With a little exploration, we may find that…
for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me. Genesis 22: 12 Only – Do you have a collection? Maybe baseball cards, maybe souvenirs, maybe stamps, maybe dolls? Then you know the value of a “one-of-a-kind” item. Sometimes such things are literally priceless. What…
for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me. Genesis 22: 12 Know – God provides us with a very practical definition of what it means to fear Him. That definition is found in the story of Isaac’s sacrifice. What we learn about proper…
Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen for yourselves the LORD, to serve Him.” And they said, “We are witnesses.” Joshua 24:22 Chosen – Not all choices are God’s choices. Men also choose. Here is the Hebrew verb bahar employed to describe the choice of the people to…
For the LORD has chosen Jacob for Himself, Israel for His own possession. Psalm 135:4 Has Chosen – Understanding Paul’s use of the Greek verb ekelegomai requires that we take a long look at the Hebrew concept behind the idea of election. After all, Paul thinks like a Hebrew even if He writes in Greek. …
But as for you, speak the things which are fitting for sound doctrine. Titus 2:1 Sound Doctrine – With all the dissension in Christian circles over doctrinal differences, how do we know what is sound and what is not? There are so many denominational disparities that many are left with the impression that the only…
