“For now I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept then, I would have been at rest,” Job 3:13 NASB Been quiet – Silence is an emotional response to trauma. It doesn’t have to be. Silence can be the emotional response to awe, to majesty, to gratitude. But that would require prior…
“Afterward Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth” Job 3:1 NASB Cursed – Unfortunately, even the best of us fail. Chapter 3 begins the real story of Job. Most of the book is devoted to Job’s erosion toward justification. It all starts with a subtle shift: Job wishes he were never…
“But it shall come about, if you do not obey the Lord your God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes with which I charge you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:” Deuteronomy 28:15 NASB Curses – You’re cursed. Maybe you didn’t know it, but that doesn’t matter….
But his mother said to him, “Your curse be on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, get them for me.” Genesis 27:13 NASB Your curse – “Listen to me,” she said. Actually, it’s more like, “Listen to the sound of my making.” She continues, “If anything disastrous happens, then let it affect me. I will…
“And I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.” Genesis 12:3 NASB Bless/curse – On my last trip to Israel, I was delighted to meet Roi Ziv, a native Israelite who lives near Nof Ginnosar…
He drank of the wine and became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent. Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. Genesis 9:21-22 NASB Uncovered himself – A story within a story. What’s really happening in this cryptic account? First, the obvious. Noah naked in…
“Woe to the one who quarrels with his Maker– An earthenware vessel among the vessels of earth! Will the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you doing?’ Or the thing you are making say, ‘He has no hands’”? Isaiah 45:9 NASB Quarrels – Have you argued with God lately? Watch out! According to some…
This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him and saved him out of all his troubles. Psalm 34:6 NASB That Blessed Curse When did I discover I was falsely made? The day I first noticed no one knew That underneath my skin I grew Some other way When did I uncover my…
The Lord smelled the soothing aroma; and the Lord said to Himself, “I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again destroy every living thing, as I have done. Genesis 8:21 NASB Curse – Time to put…
Be gracious to me, O God, according to your loving kindness; according to the multitude of your mercies blot out my transgressions. Psalm 51:3 Hebrew World Blot out – Technology has changed our conception of forgiveness. In a world where we can simply backspace or press the spell-check button, we don’t think of any word…
