Do not hide Your face from me on the day of my distress; Incline Your ear to me; On the day when I call answer me quickly. Psalm 102:2 NASB My distress – Why do earthquakes occur? The simple answer is that geological plates move under stress. The shift in the land is what we call…
casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you. 1 Peter 5:7 NASB Cares – What is a paradox? We could rely on dictionary definitions like this one: “a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true,” but what this really says is that a paradox is only an apparent problem. The definition…
casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you. 1 Peter 5:7 NASB Anxiety – “Of course I know I’m dreaming,” I said to myself in my dream. But it didn’t help. The spectre of imminent injury was still there. In fact, intensified. Yes, I knew it was a dream but it was a…
“For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?” Matthew 6:25 NASB Do not be worried – God worries about you. Do…
Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time, casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you. 1 Peter 5:6-7 NASB He cares – Peter writes to those who are anxious, suffering, and confused. They believe. They live according to their beliefs. The Messiah is…
For He Himself knows our frame; He is mindful that we are but dust. Psalm 103:14 NASB He Himself – Does God know you? All about you? Everything? “Of course, He does,” you answer. “He’s omniscient. He knows everything.” If that’s true, then why does the Psalmist use a construction that effectively underlines the point? Why doesn’t he write,…
When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars which You have ordained, what is man that You take thought of him and the son of man that You care for him? Psalm 8:3-4 NASB Take thought – David spent many nights under the stars. Without the disturbance of…
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. Philippians 4:6 NASB Anxious– “for nothing.” Well, that’s a pretty big order. “Nothing” covers a lot of things. Just about everything, in fact. So Yeshua didn’t have much to be anxious about, right? After all, he had a…
and came to him and bandaged up his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them; and he put him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn and took care of him. Luke 10:34 NASB Took care – The parable of the Good Samaritan is about an enemy who fulfills the goal of the…
When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars which You have ordained, what is man that You take thought of him and the son of man that You care for him? Psalm 8:3-4NASB Take thought – David spent many nights under the stars. Without the disturbance of electric…
