He has told you, mortal one, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? Micah 6:8 NASB What is good – The simple truth. Three things God asks of us. Do justice, love kindness, walk in His ways. That’s it. No lofty theoretical propositions….
The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. Psalm 34:18 NASB Crushed – One of the joys of teaching English to Italian businesspeople is explaining English idioms. Every language and every culture has its own idioms. Italian, for example, has a lovely idiom about keeping a secret: acqua en boca, which…
(Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.) Numbers 12:3 NIV Very humble– How can a man be the most humble man on the face of the earth? Just knowing that he is would create some small twinge of pride, wouldn’t it? It would make him unique, set…
“Lord, make me to know my end and what is the extent of my days; let me know how transient I am.” Psalm 39:4 NASB Make me know – The Jewish Bible translates this opening phrase as “I would know when I will cease.” The verb is familiar, yādaʿ, used 944 times in the Tanakh for virtually every…
Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time, 1 Peter 5:6 NASB Humble – The road less traveled is not a highway. It is a back road, the one that wanders through no-name villages, over streams without signs, across ditches and into forests where you…
Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time 1 Peter 5:6 NASB Humble yourselves – God is not going to do this for you! There are some things that you and I have to do on our own. God expects us to do what we…
His life will repose in bounty, and his seed will inherit the earth. Psalm 25:13 Robert Alter translation Will inherit – When the ESV, NIV, NLT and NASB choose to translate ‘erets as “land,” we miss the vital connection between David’s poetry and Yeshua’s beatitude. Translators may sometimes be justified in choosing “land” rather than…
Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God. 2 Chronicles 33:13 NASB Knew – How many times will you commit the same offense before God turns His back? How terrible must your sins be before God will not forgive? Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai suggested that God might have ordained the terrible sins of David and…
And we the strong ought to bear the weaknesses of those not strong and not please ourselves. Romans 15:1 Ought – We have been persuaded. We are convinced. We understand. We realize that there is room for both Torah and grace. We see that the two paths converge in the purposes of God. We know…
