Life: The Movie

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding.  In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.  Proverbs 3:5-6 NASB Trust – Movies have plots.  They are usually accompanied by subtle forewarning clues.  There are no extraneous persons in the story.  That incidental character who just happens to…

The Purpose of Knowing (2)

I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.  Psalm 119:75  NASB Faithfulness – Amen to that!  Amen to what?  To the faithfulness of God when He afflicts me!  The Hebrew is emuna’, from the same root as Amen.  God is faithful.  That means He is trustworthy,…

The Closed Door

And to whom did He swear that they should not enter His rest, but to those who were disobedient?  And so we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.  Hebrews 3:18-19  NASB Unbelief – God closes the door to those who do not believe.  They do not enter His rest.  So…

God and Israel

My eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me;
He who walks in a blameless way is the one who will minister to me.  Psalm 101:6  NASB The faithful of the land – “The Torah is God’s wisdom, and Israel translates it into real life.”  “. . . Israel…