How I loved Your teaching. All the day it was my theme. Psalm 119:97 Robert Alter Theme – Remember the “perfect” tense—the completed action—of the first part of this verse. The psalmist is describing his collective experience of God’s instruction. He’s not projecting or anticipating something yet to be realized. He’s saying that he has already…
You too, be ready; because the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not think He will.” Luke 12:40 NASB Be ready – The March 29 edition of My Utmost for His Highest could have been written by Moses Luzzatto rather than Oswald Chambers (with a few corrections for Christian vocabulary). Chambers…
I will meditate on your precepts, and fix my eyes on your ways. Psalm 119:15 Meditate – Perhaps we “meditate” more than we think. For us, meditation usually implies something like quiet and deliberate reflection. But the Hebrew word siyach has some unusual history and application that just might open the door to a different…
