Acqua in Bocca

My mouth is filled with Your praise and with Your glory all day long.  Psalm 71:8  NASB Filled – You don’t really speak a language until you speak its idioms.  If I say, “Cut to the chase” or “He kicked the bucket,” you won’t have any idea what I mean if you simply translate the phrases word…

The Perfect God

As for God, his way is perfect: The Lord’s word is flawless; he shields all who take refuge in him.  Psalm 18:30  NIV Perfect – Perfection is one of God’s attributes listed by Thomas Aquinas.  The list also includes omniscience, omnipotence, eternal, immutable, etc.  I’m sure you’re familiar with the ideas even if you don’t know the theological…

99 and 44/100th Percent

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy.  James 3:17  NASB Full of mercy – The Greek word mestos means “completely full, replete.”  It is not a term that allows qualification.  All or not all.  Those are the choices.  When James says…