Let It Be

Let my soul live that it may praise You, and let Your ordinances help me.  Psalm 119:175  NASB Live/ help – We don’t need to mention the mistaken translation “soul.”  You certainly know that nepeš isn’t “soul,” which is the Greek term psyche.  But we should note the idea that praise can only happen while we…

The Promise (5)

“Do not fear, for I am with you; do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.” Isaiah 41:10  NASB Help– The verb is an old friend, in fact, so old that it takes us back to the first “helper.”…

A Call to Arms

The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped; Psalm 28:7 NASB Helped – So you’re up against it. That old feeling of helplessness, abandonment, anxiety, fear, worthlessness is back again. You thought you’d overcome it, but then something happened. Something you didn’t expect, weren’t prepared for. And suddenly you’re that little…