The God Trap (Rewind)

You have enclosed me behind and before, and laid Your hand upon me.  Psalm 139:5  NASB 1995 Behind and before – Remember that interesting idea of engineered accidents (yesterday)?  Well, there’s another implication to the suggestion that God’s invisible hand is maneuvering your life into kairos moments.  We looked that this further implication several years ago.  Perhaps…

Going Home

we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.  2 Corinthians 5:8  NASB 1995 Absent – “The fantasy of escape from the struggle of existence must be deeply addressed if one is to find the vital center of one’s being.”[1] “I just…

R.I.P.

“Thus says the LORD, “The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness – Israel, when it went to find its rest.”  Jeremiah 31:2  NASB Rest – Did Israel go into the wilderness to find rest?  Or did the people go into the wilderness to find fleeting endurance?  Unfortunately, the true sense of…

The God Trap

You have enclosed me behind and before, and laid Your hand upon me.  Psalm 139:5  NASB Behind and before– Do you want to be free? Free to determine your own way? Free from the expectations of others? Free to explore who you really are? Free to choose God?  Then get ready to be constrained!  Human freedom is not the clear path…

Death in the Desert

The cords of death encompassed me, and the torrents of ungodliness terrified me. Psalm 18:4 NASB Torrents – Escape! Escape to the waste places! Run for your life away from the wicked and their overpowering influence. How else will you survive? How can you resist the constant barrage of cultural deviations from the way of…

The Houdini God

No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, that you may be able to endure it.  1 Corinthians 10:13  NASB Endure – Houdini…