Truth and Consequences

For they provoked Him with their high places and moved Him to jealousy with their carved images.  Psalm 78:58  NASB Provoked/ jealousy – Yesterday we realized that the children of Israel turned back (sûg) toward Egypt in their hearts because they could not emotionally trust God.  Their feet kept going forward, around and around in the wilderness waiting, waiting,…

A Terrifying Calm

The terror of a king is like the growling of a lion; he who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.  Proverbs 20:2  NASB Provokes – At 3AM I got out of my sleeping bag and unzipped the tent door.  There was just enough moonlight to see around the campsite.  Everyone else in the…

Provoked to Jealousy

if somehow I might move to jealousy my fellow-countrymen and save some of them.  Romans 11:14  NASB Move – What have we done?  That ought to be the paramount question for our time.  I don’t mean what have we done to human dignity, social engineering, planetary capitalism, and the suicide of integrity.  I mean what…