The Circle of Life

Your faithfulness continues throughout generations; You established the earth, and it stands.  Psalm 119:90  NASB Generations – Disney borrowed from Genesis.  “By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, until you return to the ground, because from it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return” (Genesis 3:19).  Well, maybe not exactly.  After all, the…

And Equal Justice For All

Though while he lives he congratulates himself—and though people praise you when you do well for yourself—he will go to the generation of his fathers; they will never see the light.     Psalm 49:18-19  NASB The generation of his fathers – Do you recall the investigation into verse 15, the verse that apparently suggests an afterlife?  We discovered that the idea…

Remains of the Day

But You, Lord, remain forever, and Your name remains to all generations.  Psalm 102:12  NASB Remain – God remains forever.  In Hebrew, יְהֹוָה לְעוֹלָם.  You’ll notice immediately that David uses the personal name of God, יְהֹוָה , not the word “Lord.”  This matters, since he continues the thought with “Your name,” not “Your title.”  There were plenty of other divine…