Head Trip

And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.   Jeremiah 29:13  NASB Seek/search – “The modern scholar thinks that he must find religious answers to his critical questions by means of peshat exegesis. In contrast, the sages believed that answers to critical questions should be proposed by means of derash.  Like…

Healing Wounds

When He killed them, then they sought Him, and they returned and searched diligently for God;  Psalm 78:34  NASB Sought – When do you seek God?  Well, when do most people seek God?  When things are bad.  When we want a God-genie to fix things. When we’re suffering.  The rest of the time, God is sort of…

Silence of the Lambs (5)

The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, to the person who seeks Him. Lamentations 3:25  NASB Discovering Despair – Hebrew Scripture uses two words for the concept of seeking.  Translated identically, they actually have important differences.  The two are bāqaš and dāraš.  TWOT notes: Our word is distinguished from its frequent parallel and equivalent bāqaš (q.v.)…

Seek and Search

“You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.”  Jeremiah 29:13 Seek and Search – Not just action, but diligent, purposeful action.  You won’t get what you’re looking for unless you know the difference.  That’s why Jeremiah uses two words for “seek” in this verse.  God wants you…