I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are…
Behold, You desire truth in the innermost being, and in the hidden part You will make me know wisdom. Psalm 51:6 NASB Innermost being/ hidden part – Psalm 51 is infamous for its most controversial verse, number 5. You probably know it from memory (“Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived…
How great is Your goodness, which You have stored up for those who fear You, which You have wrought for those who take refuge in You, before the sons of men! Psalm 31:19 NASB Have stored up– Do you like treasure hunts? Does finding the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow appeal to you? Well, according…
For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God. Romans 8:19 NASB Sons of God – How about you? Do you anxiously await with eager expectation the revealing of the sons of God? Or do you dread the Day of Reckoning? Or, perhaps even worse, you just…
Her priests have done violence to My teaching and they profane My set-apart matters. They have not distinguished between the set-apart and profane, nor have they made known the difference between the unclean and the clean. And they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, and I am profaned in their midst. Yehezqel 22:26 ISR…
See how great a love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. 1 John 3:1 NASB For this reason – Did you notice that John claims the world…
“Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden and whom God has hedged in?” Job 3:23 NASB Hidden – We all want to know what’s really happening. Too bad life doesn’t tell us. That’s pretty much the summary of real human existence. I don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow. Neither do…
“Yet these things you have concealed in Your heart; I know that this is within You.” Job 10:13 Concealed – Job’s complaint is our complaint. In the time of his crisis, he cries out to God. “I loathe my life. You made me, Lord. You know everything about me. You understand me right to the…
on earth, as it is in heaven Matthew 6:10 Earth/ Heaven – Startling! Uncomfortable! Of course, it isn’t for us because we are not saturated in the Hebrew Scriptures. But the disciples were. They would have expected “heaven and earth” not “earth and heaven.” Glance through the Old Testament and you will find the phrase…
