“For My devisings are not your devisings, and your ways are not My ways,” says the Lord. For as the heavens are high over the earth, so My ways are high over your ways and My devisings over your devisings.” Isaiah 55:8-9 Robert Alter Devisings – You’re probably more familiar with this verse translated in the popular religious vernacular: “For My…
For thus says the Lord to me, “As the lion or the young lion growls over his prey, against which a band of shepherds is called out, and he will not be terrified at their voice nor disturbed at their noise, so will the Lord of hosts come down to wage war on Mount Zion and on its hill.” Isaiah 31:4
A lion has roared! Who will not fear? The Lord God has spoken! Who can but prophesy? Amos 3:8 NASB Prophesy – At age twenty-one I graduated from my first university and moved to Switzerland. “Why?” you might ask. It was my desire and intention to sit at the feet of Francis Schaeffer. A missions group I knew promised…
I will soon be back in lion country. Maybe I can meet up with this big boy again. Just thought I would share a view with you today. We have been straining our minds. Time for a little visual relief. Enjoy Shabbat tomorrow.
“There are three things that are stately in their stride, four that move with stately bearing: a lion, mighty among beasts, who retreats before nothing; Proverbs 30:29-30 NIV Lion – In two days I hope that the small group of us who are venturing into the African bush to see and study God’s creation will…
If a lion could talk, we could not understand him. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations Understand – You won’t find this sentence in the Bible, so don’t bother to look. But you will find the idea behind Wittgenstein’s insight.[1] The idea is that the meaning of words cannot be fully explained with other words. What is…
For I will be like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear to pieces and go away, I will carry away, and there will be none to deliver. Hosea 5:14 NASB Tear to pieces – Day 6. Did you think God didn’t care?…
