Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles; lest YHWH see and it be evil in His eyes, and He turn away His wrath from him. Proverbs 24:17-18 (Darby modified) Not – It’s a new year. This year the wicked will get what they deserve. This…
But wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy. James 3:17 Peaceable – OK, let’s think about this. “Peaceable?” We live in a world of greater and greater threat and conflict. In case you weren’t paying attention, tensions around the globe are escalating as…
But wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy. James 3:17 Pure – Want peace in your life? Want gentleness, mercy and integrity? Want clear reason and satisfying production? Then start with hagnos (Greek for pure). Of course, it’s important to know what “pure”…
“I will give them one heart and one way of life, to reverence me at all times, for their own good and the good of their children after them.” Jeremiah 32:39 One Way Of Life – The old beliefs die hard. Tradition is difficult to revise. Comfortable conclusions resist correction. But a love of the…
“And you, lie down on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it. The number of the days that you shall lie down on it, you shall bear their iniquity.” Ezekiel 4:4 (translation: A. Heschel) Bear – Who will respond to the call of the Lord? “Here I am,”…
In the beginning Genesis 1:1 In The Beginning – The Tanakh opens with a single word, bere’shiyt, a compound of the preposition be and re’shiyt, a noun that means “the first, the chief, the best.” The rabbis noted a curious thing about bere’shiyt. It begins with a bet, the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet. …
Jesus answered, “It was neither that this man sinned, nor his parents; but it was in order that the works of God might be displayed in him.” John 9:3 (my translation) Displayed – How long does it take for God to use us as a display of His work? Apparently longer than we think. Imagine…
December 25 Submit your neck to her yoke, that your mind may accept her teaching. For she is close to those who seek her, and the one who is in earnest finds her. Sirach 51:26 Yoke – On this day when the ancient world celebrated the renewal and return of the fertility gods, a day…
as it is written, Mark 1:2, Mark 9:13, Romans 3:10, Romans 8:36, 1 Corinthians 1:31, Galatians 3:10 and many others. As It Is Written – This phrase we find more than familiar. In fact, Paul uses it so often that we probably don’t think of it as anything more than a citation reference, like an…
“Truly I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.” Matthew 23:36 This Generation – Yeshua’s words are harsh. The generation that rejects Him, refusing to see the truth of His message of restoration and mercy, will suffer. Genean tauten are those who were with Him, saw the signs of His anointing,…
